Quintin Hogg Quotes

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Of Denis Healey:

A piratical old bruiser with a first-class mind and very bad manners.

Quintin Hogg

The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chance or inadvertence, and shedding them in a fit of absent-mindedness.

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In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft centre has always melted away.

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Being Conservative is only another way of being British.

Quintin Hogg

I believe there is a golden thread which alone gives meaning to the political history of the West, from Marathon to Alamein, from Solon to Winston Churchill and after. This I chose to call the doctrine of liberty under the law.

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I've known every Prime Minister to a greater or lesser extent since Balfour, and most of them have died unhappy.

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

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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.

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