A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent,… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
