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It depends on how it is done ...

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 49 quotes

If Margaret Thatcher had been...

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

We must admit that history is...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

Diplomacy is unfashionable in...

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

Ten Downing Street is a house...

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

We must admit that history is...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

War on Iraq runs the risk of ...

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

But Germany will always suffe...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

But it cannot follow that bec...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

Margaret Thatcher, growing up...

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

People are very interested in...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

Margaret Thatcher was fearful...

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

People are very interested in...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

We should be wary of politici...

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 49 quotes

Wisely used history can give ...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

There is no consensus even to...

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 49 quotes

It was essentially for self d...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

There are thus great swathes ...

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

I may be wrong in that, but n...

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

No military timetable should ...

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 49 quotes

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