"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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History
More From William Hague
- "We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today."
- "When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I’m not sorry, and I’d do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads."
- "I trust the people."
More In History
- "I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register."― Mike Tyson
- "If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside."― James Buchan
- "The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."― Ambrose Bierce