🌦 Top 11 Quotes of H. H. Asquith - Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Top 11 Quotes of H. H. Asquith:
✡ We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
✡ 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.
✡ The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
✡ 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.
✡ 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.
✡ Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
✡ 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.
✡ Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
✡ The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
✡ There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
✡ At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
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🖎 Author: H. H. Asquith
♛ Career: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
📅 Life: September 12, 1852 - February 15, 1928
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