H. H. Asquith Quotes

United Kingdom, Statesman
September 12, 1852 – February, 15, 1928.

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC, FRS (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

H. H. Asquith
- Army
- Return
- Defence
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

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.

H. H. Asquith
- War
- Office
- Three
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
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
- Good
- Power
- War
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

H. H. Asquith
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

H. H. Asquith
- Up
- Happy
- Age
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

H. H. Asquith
- War
- Army
- Wire

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

H. H. Asquith
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
- Real
- Why
- War