[Then in 1985,] out of the blue ... I accepted with delight and have never regretted this decision.
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.
Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.
I have decided to say one or two words about Iraq, but more of that on Tuesday.
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy,
I'm rather hoping this is a unique case, because as far as I know it is the first time the Government has challenged the composition of the House of Lords and I rather hope they will never do it again.
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
Perhaps Mr Blair should know that when he talks about the rules of the game he should know this is not a game; this is a deathly serious and earnest matter, and that what we [the judges] do apply is the law.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
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 absentmindedness.
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion
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