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I believe inflation in that sense and on that scale corrupts a country in its moral as well as in its economic life, undermines law and order and threatens our free institutions.

— Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

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A great party is not to be brought down because of a scandal by a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.

If the British public falls for this, I think it would be stark, staring bonkers.

I have never believed in peace at any price.

There is a sense in which all law is nothing more nor less than a gigantic confidence trick.

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