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War Quotes by Douglas Hurd
- There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of…
- No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time…
- But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
- It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
- I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but…
- The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
- We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov