The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

- Lord Hailsham

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

- Lord Hailsham

We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a less…

- 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, wil…

- Lord Hailsham

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

- Lord Hailsham

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

- 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

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

- Lord Hailsham