The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
H. H. AsquithWe 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. AsquithAt 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
H. H. AsquithIf I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
H. H. Asquith