Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Lord Hailsham

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Viscount Hailsham, of Hailsham in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Douglas Hogg, 1st Baron Hailsham, who twice served as Lord High Chancellor of the Great Britain. He had already been created Baron Hailsham, of Hailsham in the County of Sussex, in 1928, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Hogg was the son of the merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg, seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet, whose eldest son James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baronet was created Baron Magheramorne in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1887.

British - Politician | October 9, 1907 - October 12, 2001

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In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

Lord Hailsham

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lord Hailsham

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

Lord Hailsham

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

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

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

Lord Hailsham

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Lord Hailsham

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.

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Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Lord Hailsham

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

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Lord Hailsham

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Lord Hailsham

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

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