Frases de Herbert Henry Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, I Conde de Oxford y Asquith KG, PC fue primer ministro del Reino Unido por el Partido Liberal, entre 1908 y 1916.[1]​ Antes de su acceso a la nobleza, era conocido como H. H. Asquith, y luego como Lord Oxford. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. septiembre 1852 – 15. febrero 1928
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Herbert Henry Asquith: Frases en inglés

“We shall never sheathe the sword, which we have not lightly drawn”

Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1914; see
Contexto: We shall never sheathe the sword, which we have not lightly drawn, until Belgium recovers in full measure all, and more than all, that she has sacrificed; until France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression; until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation; and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.

“We had better wait and see.”

Phrase used repeatedly in speeches in 1910; see [Jenkins, Roy, w:Roy Jenkins, Asquith, A Trial of Statesmanship I, 1964]

“The military domination of Prussia, with all that it involved to the fortunes of the secular struggle between force upon the one side and right upon the other, that domination has been once and for all and for ever overthrown.”

Speech in Paisley (6 February 1920), quoted in Speeches by The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G. (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1927), p. 265
Later life

“I have realised from the first that if it could not be proved that social reform (not Socialism) can be financed on a Free Trade line, a return to Protection is a moral certainty.”

Letter to John Strachey (9 May 1908), quoted in H. C. G. Matthew, The Liberal Imperialists: The Ideas and Politics of a Post-Gladstonian Élite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 257
Prime Minister

“Wonderful news to-day, and it is only a question of time when we shall sweep this country.”

Remark to Margot Asquith (16 May 1903) after reading in the The Times Joseph Chamberlain's speech advocating protectionism, quoted in The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, Volume Two (London: Penguin, 1936), p. 46
Opposition MP

“[T]he bond which united them, if their critics were to be believed, might be a tranquil consciousness of effortless superiority.”

Remarks to a dinner given to Asquith in the House of Commons by MPs who had graduated from Balliol College (22 July 1908), quoted in The Times (23 July 1908), p. 12
Prime Minister

“No, I will not. We shall wait and see.”

Answer to an elector who asked him if he would say what he would do if the House of Lords rejected a Bill limiting their veto, in East Fife (20 January 1910), quoted in The Times (21 January 1910), p. 10

Phrase used repeatedly in speeches in 1910; see [Jenkins, Roy, w:Roy Jenkins, Asquith, A Trial of Statesmanship I, 1964]
Prime Minister

“...a return to more thrifty and economical administration [is] the first and paramount duty of the Government.”

Budget speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/apr/30/expenditure in the House of Commons (30 April 1906)
Chancellor of the Exchequer

“...where we were obliged to part company with our friends was here—that we held and still hold that war was neither intended nor desired by the Government and the people of Great Britain, but that it was forced upon us without adequate reason, entirely against our will.”

Speech in the Liverpool Street Station Hotel, London (20 June 1901) on the Boer War, quoted in Speeches by The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G. (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1927), p. 40
Opposition MP

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