Douglas Hurd Quotes

Douglas Hurd — British Politician born on March 08, 1930,

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell CH CBE PC is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.

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

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