Douglas Hurd

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#character #crimes #dramatic #fear #germany

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Despite 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. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#believe #children #country #despite #education

History provides no precise guidelines. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#history #precise #provides

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 a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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It 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. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#depends #dimension #done #drifting #grow

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#countries #draw #her #history #lessons

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#defence #essentially #go #iraq #self

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#bombed #britain #continental #derived #distrust

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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