Lord Hailsham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Expression #Democracy #Freedom Of Expression
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Religious #Passion #Honest
Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Drug #Abuse #Liberty
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Educational #Winning #Way
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Democracy #Dull #Politics
Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Political #Liberty #Diffusion
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Political #Concentration #Dictatorship
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Boredom #Boring #Ashamed
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Punishment #Justice #Criminals
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Men #Doubt #Facts
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 preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Country #School #Science
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

#May #Way #Ruins

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