H. H. Asquith Quotes

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The Theban, somewhere in Herodotus, who says [...] that of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to exercise it.

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Jolie hypothese elle explique tant de chases. A pretty hypothesis which explains many things.

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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

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We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

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We shall never sheathe the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has sacrificed, until France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation, and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.

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The value of the Cabinet system is often conspicuously illustrated in the sphere of Foreign Policy. The heavy and always increasing pressure of departmental duties makes it impossible for the majority of Ministers to follow from the study of telegrams and despatches the vast variety of complicated matters which are being handled day by day at the Foreign Office.

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The man who uses italics is like the man who raises his voice in conversation and talks loudly in order to make himself heard.

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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

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The office of the Prime Minister is what its holder chooses and is able to make of it.

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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

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The War Office kept three sets of figures:
one to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

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It is fitting that we should have buried the Unknown Prime Minister [Bonar Law] by the side of the Unknown Soldier.

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The curious thing is that on many, if not most of the points, Austria has a good and Serbia a very bad case. But the Austrians are quite the stupidest people in Europe.

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He is a Chimborazo or Everest among the sandhills of the Baldwin Cabinet.
Of Winston Churchill

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I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment.

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The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

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