Douglas Hurd's Profile
Brief about Douglas Hurd: By info that we know Douglas Hurd was born at 1930-03-08. And also Douglas Hurd is British Politician.
Some Douglas Hurd's quotes. Goto "Douglas Hurd's quotation" section for more.A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
Tags: Act, Democratic, MightBut Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
Tags: Character, Fear, ThirdBut it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
Tags: Cannot, Follow, WarHistory provides no precise guidelines.
Tags: Guidelines, History, PreciseIt is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
Tags: Her, History, ThemselvesIt was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
Tags: Iraq, Self, WarPeople are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.
Tags: Interested, PoliticsPeople know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
Tags: Guidance, Spiritual, WantingThe first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
Tags: Lessons, Second, WarThe tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Tags: Action, American, LeavingThere is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
Tags: Business, False, PrideWe must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
Tags: History, Judgement, PastWe, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
Tags: Happy, Neither, WarWisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Tags: Become, Give, HistoryDespite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
Tags: Children, Country, EducationI may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
Tags: Fight, Government, WarIt depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
Tags: Done, Life, SpiritualMargaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
Tags: Economic, She, StrengthRelated topics
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