H. H. Asquith Quotes

• 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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  H. H. Asquith's Address to the House of Commons on the declaration of war with Germany, api.parliament.uk. August 6, 1914.

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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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  In Alistair Horne 'Price of Glory' (1962) ch. 2

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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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  In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

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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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  Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.

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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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