Quote by William Hague
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. – William Hague

Other quotes by William Hague

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people wont believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons. – William Hague

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Government
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People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. – William Hague

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Change
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The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal. – William Hague

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Home
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The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world. – Elizabeth Dole

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Freedom

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. – Author Unknown

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Freedom

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. – Vladimir Lenin

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Freedom

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our countrys birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon. – John Linder

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Freedom

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Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. – George Mikes, How to Be an Alien, 1946

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I happen to feel that the degree of a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. – Lisa Alther

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Contradiction

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. – George McGovern

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History

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. – Stanford Moore

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Wisdom