Commonwealth
Sir Alan has always had a strong passion for the Commonwealth. Between the years of 1978-1981 he was Chair of the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council. In July 2010 Sir Alan was elected Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch and the following year at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference at London in July 2011, Sir Alan Haselhurst was elected Chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's Executive Committee.
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“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
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—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)