Top 24 Quotes by Douglas Hurd

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.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

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

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

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

History provides no precise guidelines.

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.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

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