Douglas Hurd Quotes & Sayings

24 most famous Douglas Hurd quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“History provides no precise guidelines.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”