9+ Henry Bolingbroke Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Henry Bolingbroke quotes and sayings.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. — Henry Bolingbroke

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. — Henry Bolingbroke

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke

Nations, like men, have their infancy. — Henry Bolingbroke

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. — Henry Bolingbroke

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more. — Henry Bolingbroke

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. — Henry Bolingbroke

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. — Henry Bolingbroke

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke