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History provides no precise guidelines.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Guidelines
Precise
Provides
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Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
People
Prison
Way
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Democratic
Iraq
Might
Spurs
Democratic Iraq
Genuinely
Spur
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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.
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Labelled
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Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.
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Arguing
Ministers
People
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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.
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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
War
Britain
Germany
Iraq
Iraq War
Be Happy
Handling
Neither
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Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Downing Street
House
Office
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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
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Arrogant
Pride
Skills
German
False
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It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Afghanistan
Defence
Essentially
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People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
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Guidance
Kind
Lacking
People
Spiritual
Wanting
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But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
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Troops
Weapons
Deployed
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Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Gossip
Silence
Sin
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Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Knee Jerk Reactions
Knees
Sound
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If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.
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Ministers
Prime
Treaties
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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Giving
Pleasure
Slave
Tools
Useful
Provide
Slaves
Useful Tool
Wisely
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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
America
Divided
Europe
Leaving
Tragedy
Wake
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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.
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Enjoyable
Judgment
Past
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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Enjoyable
Judgement
Admit
Enables
Extent
Pass
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But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Character
Dramatic
Germany
Suffering
Crimes
Intensely
Reich
Suffer
Third
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War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Running
War
Iraq
Risk
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The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Lessons
Ministers
Second World War
War World First
Drew
Heath
Margaret
Prime Ministers
Served
Ted
Thatcher
Whom
World War
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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 / British Politician
Anxious
Country
Lessons
Pupils
Teaching
Draw
Politicians
Profess
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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
War
Agreement
Consensus
First World War
Rights
War Today World
First World
Merits
Napoleon
Origins
World War
Wrongs
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Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Men
Accepted
Action
Defence
Justified
Actions
Immediate
Plead
Stalin
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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 / British Politician
Depends
Drifting
Spiritual
Life Grow People
Dimension
Grow Up
Spiritual Dimension
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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 / British Politician
Battered
Britain
Continental
Distrust
Europe
Germany
Growing Up
Years
Bombed
Derived
Grown
Margaret
Thatcher
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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 / British Politician
Balance
Despite
Germany
Hostility
Adult
Widespread
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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.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
War
Allowing
Example
Military
Successful
Compel
Disarmed
Feasible
For Example
Namely
Outcome
Timetable
Un
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We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Favour
Noticing
Politician
Should
Signposts
Direction
Politicians
Profess
Wary
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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 / British Politician
Democracy
Forces
Orders
Putting
Unanimous
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Ideas
Judgement
Past
Principal
Understanding
Time Great Past
Ours
Performed
Reputable
Thus
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Margaret 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.
Douglas Hurd / British Politician
Economic
Europe
Fearful
Formidable
Germany
Increase
Unification
German
Believed
Economic Strength
Immediate
Margaret
Partner
Thatcher
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