Quotes by Michael Howard

Michael Howard

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

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History is what we read, write and think about the past.

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Writing

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister… I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

Debate

Past

Sex

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

Believe

Law

Past

I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

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Military

Wise

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Conservative

Conservative Party

Party

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

Muggers

Prison

Thinking

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

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People

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

Government

Peace

War

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

Bravery

Hands

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Quotes by Michael Howard

Michael Howard

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister… I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.

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