Lord Hailsham

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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