H. H. Asquith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Birthday #Would Be #Littles
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.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Real #War #Distance
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.
-- H. H. Asquith

#War #Army #Wire
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.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Strong #War #Fighting
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Birthday #50th Birthday #Aging
I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Disappointment #Bitter #Honestly
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Greatness #Brain #Lightning
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.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Power #Fields #Hateful
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
-- H. H. Asquith

#War #Office #Three
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.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Strong #Fighting #Men
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Army #Return #Defence
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
-- H. H. Asquith

#Illustration #House #Parliament

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