Skip to content

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

— H. H. Asquith

Another quote →

Topics

Government

More quotes by H. H. Asquith

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.

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

All H. H. Asquith quotes →

You may also like

Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: H. H. Asquith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.