Author: Douglas Hurd

Quotes

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

- Douglas Hurd

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

- Douglas Hurd

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

- Douglas Hurd

History provides no precise guidelines.

History provides no precise guidelines.

- Douglas Hurd

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

- Douglas Hurd

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

- Douglas Hurd

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

- Douglas Hurd

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

- Douglas Hurd

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

- Douglas Hurd

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