We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated.… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
