Quotes of Douglas Hurd - somelinesforyou

“ History provides no precise guidelines. ”

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

“ 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

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

“ The church has filled after 11 September, which to be honest is a more important milestone than the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. ”

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

“ 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

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

- Douglas Hurd

“ 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. ”

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

“ History provides no precise guidelines. ”

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

“ 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. ”

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

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

- Douglas Hurd

“ 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
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