Michael Howard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.
-- Michael Howard

#Government #Law #History
History is what we read, write and think about the past.
-- Michael Howard

#Writing #Past #Thinking
I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.
-- Michael Howard

#Wise #Clever #Military
We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other
-- Michael Howard

#Love #Friendship #Relationship
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
-- Michael Howard

#Elements #Common #Language
The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.
-- Michael Howard

#Hands #Bravery #Important
So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.
-- Michael Howard

#Peace #War #Government
What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.
-- Michael Howard

#Mean #Responsible #Ministers
Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.
-- Michael Howard

#Thinking #Muggers #Prison
Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.
-- Michael Howard

#Victory #Settling #Blair
We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.
-- Michael Howard

#Trust #Politician #Don't Trust
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
-- Michael Howard

#Country #Expectations #Asylums
There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
-- Michael Howard

#Election #Opinion #Polls
I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.
-- Michael Howard

#Sex #Past #Debate
I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
-- Michael Howard

#Party #Conservative #Conservative Party
I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
-- Michael Howard

#Believe #Past #Law

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