We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary …

- H. H. Asquith

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

If 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 obliga…

- 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

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

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

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 spect…

- H. H. Asquith

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

- H. H. Asquith