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What is urgently needed is some limitation on this nominally elected dictatorship. It is here that I join hands with the conventional Bill of Rights enthusiasts, of whom...I am not one.

— 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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