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I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

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Douglas Hurd

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

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Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

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Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

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If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

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We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

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