H. H. Asquith Quotes
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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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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by 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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At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
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Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
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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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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
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If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, 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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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
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H. H. Asquith
- Born: September 12, 1852
- Died: February 15, 1928
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom