18 Quotes by Lord Hailsham

I'm rather hoping this is a unique case, because as far as I know it is the first time the Government has challenged the composition of the House of Lords and I rather hope they will never do it again.

The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chance or inadvertence, and shedding them in a fit of absentmindedness.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

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.

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

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

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

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