Author: Douglas Hurd

Quotes

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

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

- Douglas Hurd

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

- Douglas Hurd

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

- Douglas Hurd

History provides no precise guidelines.

History provides no precise guidelines.

- Douglas Hurd

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

- Douglas Hurd

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

- Douglas Hurd

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

- 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

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