It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Quote by Douglas Hurd

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their...

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their...

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an...

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an...

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly...

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly...

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we...

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we...

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has...

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has...

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

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

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those...

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those...

History provides no precise guidelines.

History provides no precise guidelines.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may...

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may...

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history,...

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history,...

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no...

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no...

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are...

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are...

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In...

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In...

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the...

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the...

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

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

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable...

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable...

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either...

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either...