16+ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Quotes On Education, Slavery And Death

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux was an English lawyer, politician and writer who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1830 to 1834. He was a prominent Whig politician who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and for the reform of the Poor Laws. He was also a leading advocate in the House of Commons and a noted legal scholar who helped to codify English law. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux on education, love, slavery.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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

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

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. 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

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

Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in so vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures, and especially of ourselves, that we feel no hesitation in concluding that, if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

War is a crime which involves all other crimes. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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

Life Lessons by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Henry Brougham was a strong advocate for social reform, particularly in the areas of education, law and politics. He was a major proponent of the 1832 Reform Act, which increased the representation of the middle class in Parliament. His work serves as a reminder of the importance of advocating for social justice and the power of collective action to bring about positive change.