We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators. — 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 futile frontal attacks. — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
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… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
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
