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The first stage in the progress of a society from barbarism to civilization has been the creation of a system, always more or less imperfect, in which anarchy and lawlessness have given place to law and order.

— Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone The Case for Conservatism (1947)

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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.

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