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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.

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William Hague
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 26
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William Jefferson Hague
Baron Hague of Richmond
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One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.
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If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
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I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
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I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
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I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
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