Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

The Right Honourable Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC (1907-10-09 – 2001-10-12), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham (1950–1963), was a British Conservative politician.

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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, The Case for Conservatism (Penguin, 1947), p. 10.

• Being Conservative is only another way of being British.
• Quintin Hogg, The Case for Conservatism (Penguin, 1947).

• A great party is not to be brought down because of a scandal by a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.
• "Lord Hailsham speaks out", The Times, 14 June 1963, p. 9.
• On the Profumo affair. Interview with Robert McKenzie on "Gallery" for BBC television.

• Lord Hailsham: But to try to turn it into a party issue, is really beyond belief contemptible.
  Robert McKenzie: Do you feel that the others that have spoken out, the Bishops, The Times and so on, have tried to turn it into a party issue?
  Hailsham: I think you have!
• Conclusion of the same interview.

• If the British public falls for this, I think it would be stark, staring bonkers.
• "Tories to fight like fury, Party chairman says", The Times, 13 October 1964 (p. 12)
• At a press conference on 12 October 1964 during the general election campaign, referring to the policies of the Labour Party.

• If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the front bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo.
• Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, "Smear" (Fourth Estate, 1991) p. 48
• Reply to heckler's cry of "Profumo!" at a public meeting on 13 October 1964. Hogg probably had in mind the Labour Party leader Harold Wilson specifically.

• There is a sense in which all law is nothing more nor less than a gigantic confidence trick.
• Speech to Devon Magistrates, The Times 12 April 1972.

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• The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

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