Quotes from 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.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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