Douglas Hurd Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.”

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

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

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

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

“We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.”

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

“Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.”

“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.”