Lord Hailsham Quotes

#1. I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

Meghan Daum

#2. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

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#3. The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

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#4. Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

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#5. The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

Bob Brown

#6. No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Erwin Leo Himmel

#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

James Cash Penney

#11. Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

Hidetoshi Nakata

#12. As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13. 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.

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

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#15. Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

John Webster

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

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#17. Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.

Mark Sisson

#18. What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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#21. In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

Michael Bennet

#22. And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

John Milton

#23. I'm pretty far out of the loop. There's always a lot of speculation and what-have-you. I'm sure it's fun for people to watch and have fantasies of who might go where. The reality is, guys will change teams.

Andrew Ference

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

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