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1852–1928 England
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. As Prime Minister, his Liberal Party government passed social legislation beginning the modern British welfare state and reducing the power of the House of Lords.
England Academics Politicians Also known as: Asquith, Herbert, Herbert Asquith
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Wonderful news to-day, and it is only a question of time when we shall sweep this country.
The severance of Ulster from the rest of Ireland is a geographical, and, therefore, a political impossibility. ... The Union is safe so long as Ulster is loyal.
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.
[T]he bond which united them, if their critics were to be believed, might be a tranquil consciousness of effortless superiority.
[A] return to more thrifty and economical administration [is] the first and paramount duty of the Government.
No, I will not. We shall wait and see.
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.
What is the use of talking of Empire if here, at its very centre, there is always to be found a mass of people stunted in education, prey to intemperance, huddled and congested beyond the possibility of realising in any true sense either social or domestic life
Excerpts from a Leader's speech delivered in Manchester in 1918
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