Lord Hailsham Quotes

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

— Lord Hailsham

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

— 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

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

— Lord Hailsham