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History is what we read, write and think about the past.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Past
Thinking
Writing
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We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Friendship
Love
Relationship
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A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Common
Elements
Language
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I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Conservative
Conservative Party
Party
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We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Trust
Don't Trust
Knows
Politician
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The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Bravery
Hands
Important
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Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Blair
Settling
Victory
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There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Election
Opinion
Polls
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We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Asylums
Country
Expectations
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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.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Wisdom
Wise
Clever
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What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Mean
Ministers
Responsible
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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.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Debate
Past
Sex
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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.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Muggers
Prison
Thinking
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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.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Peace
Government
War
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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.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Believe
Law
Past
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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.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Wise
Clever
Military
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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.
Michael Howard / Military Historian
Government
Law
People
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