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Conservatives do not believe that political struggle is the most important thing in life... The simplest among them prefer fox-hunting — the wisest religion.

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

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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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