104 Quotes filtered by world politics
I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.
Lord Aberdeen
Letter to his wife during World War I
Category: Liberal Democrats, Liberal Party, World War I
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
John Redwood 2001
Category: Defence, War, Eurosceptic
It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.
Ramsay MacDonald
Category: International Relations
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.
Bertrand Russell 1959
On 1914
Category: World War I
Maybe we should ask the Falklanders how they feel about a war.
Francis Pym 04/1983
Category: Falklands War
The function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
Enoch Powell 20/04/1968
Category: Statesmen & Statesmanship
We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual and rthese interests it is our duty to follow.
Lord Palmerston 05/03/1857
Category: International Relations
We hear war called murder. It is not. It is suicide.
Ramsay MacDonald 1930
Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.
Edward Grey
Category: International Relations
National injustice is the surest way to national downfall.
William Ewart Gladstone
Category: International Law
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
William Ewart Gladstone 11/1879
Category: History
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
Category: History
Let it be known that war with a colony is war with England.
Viscount Cardwell
Category: Commonwealth & Empire, War
The war has developed, not necessarily to Japan's advantage.
Emperor Hirohito
Category: Stating the Bleedin' Obvious, World War II
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
Arthur Balfour 25/02/1927
Category: International Law
There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.
Arthur Balfour 12/12/1905
Category: War
There has never been a war yet which if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary fplk could not have been prevented. The common man is the greatest protection against war.
Ernest Bevin 1945
Category: War
