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 More Quotes by H. H. Asquith More Quotes From H. H. Asquith We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. H. H. Asquith fighting strong war The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. H. H. Asquith three office war 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 distance real war 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 of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. H. H. Asquith fighting strong men Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it. H. H. Asquith hateful fields power Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. H. H. Asquith funny-birthday happy-birthday retirement Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain. H. H. Asquith lightning greatness brain 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 defence return army There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. H. H. Asquith parliament illustration house At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. H. H. Asquith getting-older age birthday
