“The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.” WarThreeFiguresOfficeThirdsMisleadCabinets Author: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 spectators.” ShouldWarRealReasonSeemsDistanceReason WhyNo ReasonSpectatorsGreat WarArmageddon Author: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.” WarSeemsReadyArmyFollyWireGreat WarBarbed WireFlanders Author:H. H. Asquith
“We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.” WarFightingStrongPrinciplesInternationalAntiwarArbitraryCrushedNationalityDefianceGood Faith Author:H. H. Asquith