H. H. Asquith Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

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#7. Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment.

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#11. There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert

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