A biography for Douglas Hurdhasn’t been written yet.
“It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.”
“Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.”
“Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.”
“It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.”