In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty and adviser to the Leveson Inquiry 02/12/2012
Category: Quote of the Day, Freedom & Liberty
I refused to be silenced by threats of prosecution and I am going to speak out on what is a perfectly legitimate topic for debate. There are those who disagree, and that is fine. What we cannot have in this country are MPs being threatened when they speak out on contentious issues.
Philip Hollobone 23/03/2010
Category: Religion
It was a relief to see that Gerry's search for Jesus didn't result in a meeting of minds after all. Indeed it was all strangely detached, even a little wistful. Thankfully we were spared a wander round the Holy Land looking for Jesus the revolutionary, some parallels about blood sacrifice, a Christian justification for the IRA campaign.
Slugger O'Toole 20/02/2010
On Gerry Adams's performance on Channel 4 show 'The Bible: A History'
Category: Television, IRA Terrorism, Nationalism
Liberty, next to religion, has been the motive of good deads and the common pretext of crime.
Lord Acton 26/02/1877
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Politically there is no record of the continuance of political freedoms when economic freedoms have died.
Rhodes Boyson
Category: Freedom & Liberty
The Conservatives conserve what you have got, the Liberals are liberal with it and Labour gives it all away.
Ted Hunt
Category: Insulting Labour, Insulting Liberals, Conservatism
To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.
Michael Oakshott 1962
Category: Conservatives are..., Conservatism, Conservative Thought
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
Tony Blair
Category: Conservatism
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
Lord Boyd-Orr
Category: Food, Freedom & Liberty
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
Denis Healey
Category: Marxism
A Communist is no more a left-wing member of the Labour Party than an atheidt is a left-wing member of the Christian Church.
John Clynes
Category: Communism
People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
Enoch Powell 20/04/1968
After the Rivers of Blood speech.
Category: Racism
Fanaticism is the danger of the world and always has been and has done untold harm. I think fanaticism is the greatest danger there is. I might almost say I am fanatically against fanaticism.
Bertrand Russell 1959
Category: Dictatorship & Tyranny
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
Lord Macaulay
Category: Dictatorship & Tyranny
In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.
Hugh Gaitskell 1950
Category: Socialism
The best way of safeguarding the future is by not trying to return to the past.
Ian Gilmour
Category: Conservatism
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Viscount Falkland 22/11/1649
Category: Conservatism
