Герберт Генри Асквит цитаты
Герберт Генри Асквит
Дата рождения: 12. Сентябрь 1852
Дата смерти: 15. Февраль 1928
Герберт Генри Асквит, 1-й граф Оксфорда и Асквита — британский государственный и политический деятель, 52-й премьер-министр Великобритании от Либеральной партии с 1908 по 1916 год.
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„We shall never sheathe the sword, which we have not lightly drawn“
— H. H. Asquith
Context: We shall never sheathe the sword, which we have not lightly drawn, until Belgium recovers in full measure all, and more than all, that she has sacrificed; until France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression; until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation; and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.
Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1914; see
„Perhaps the House will allow me to add this: that I am afraid we must brace ourselves to confront one of those terrible events in the order of Providence which baffle foresight, which appall the imagination and make us realise the inadequacy of words to do justice to what we feel. We cannot say more at this moment than to give a necessarily imperfect impression of our sense of admiration that the best traditions of the sea seem to have been observed and that willing sacrifices were offered to give the first chance for safety to those who were least able to help themselves, and of the heartfelt sympathy of the whole nation to those who find themselves suddenly bereaved of their nearest and dearest.“
— H. H. Asquith
Address to the House of Commons on the sinking of the RMS Titanic; see
„If I am asked what we are fighting for I reply in two sentences: In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation, an obligation which, if it had been entered into between private persons in the ordinary concerns of life, would have been regarded as an obligation not only of law but of honour, which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle which, in these days when force, material force, sometimes seems to be the dominant influence and factor in the development of mankind, 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. I do not believe any nation ever entered into a great controversy – and this is one of the greatest history will ever know – with a clearer conscience and a stronger conviction that it is fighting, not for aggression, not for the maintenance even of its own selfish interest, but that it is fighting in defence of principles the maintenance of which is vital to the civilisation of the world.“
— H. H. Asquith
Address to the House of Commons on the declaration of war with Germany; see
„We had better wait and see.“
— H. H. Asquith
Phrase used repeatedly in speeches in 1910; see
