“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, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

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

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British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister 1907–2001

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