Quote by William Hague
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfact

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. – William Hague

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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. – William Hague

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Freedom
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The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. – William Hague

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power
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The EU is not a country and its not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. – William Hague

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Future
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While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. – Eric Alterman

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History

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. – Eddie Vedder

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History

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. – Horatio Alger

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History

I normally ignore the History Channel. – Diablo Cody

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History

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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs –apart from discernment –a certain greatness to find him. – Margot Asquith

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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. – Alex Haley

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984. – Ezra Koenig

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