Top 11 Quotes by H. H. Asquith

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

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

War, Office, Three

In Alistair Horne 'Price of Glory' (1962) ch. 2

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

Strong, War, Fighting

H. H. Asquith's Address to the House of Commons on the declaration of war with Germany, api.parliament.uk. August 6, 1914.

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

Power, Fields, Hateful

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

Strong, Fighting, Men

Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.

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

War, Distance, Real