We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin. — 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
