Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Quotes

#1. War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#2. I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,
violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#3. A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#4. Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#5. Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

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#6. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#7. I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,
habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

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#8. It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#9. What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#10. Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux