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There is nothing false or arr...

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

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

People know they are lacking ...

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

The first two Prime Ministers...

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

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.

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Some people find it difficult ...

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

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Silence is regarded as a sort ...

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

It is normal for politicians i...

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 49 quotes

People know they are lacking s...

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

We should be wary of politicia...

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

A genuinely democratic Iraq mi...

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

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But Germany will always suffer...

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

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History provides no precise gu...

History provides no precise guidelines.

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.

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Men like Hitler and Stalin and...

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

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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.

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There are thus great swathes o...

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.

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Diplomacy is unfashionable in ...

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

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There is no consensus even tod...

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.

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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised...

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

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Prison is an expensive way of ...

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

Douglas Hurd 49 quotes

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