Former lord chancellor Quotes

List of top sayings and quotations by famous former lord chancellors like Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow and John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon


  • 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
    17
  • May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.

    — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
    15
  • When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

    — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
    11
  • 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
    7
  • It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

    — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
    5
  • 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
    5
  • Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

    — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
    4
  • 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
    3
  • To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

    — John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
    3
  • Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

    — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
    1
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

    — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
    0
  • A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so .

    . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

    — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
    0
  • Related Authors

    • Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
    • Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
    • John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
    • Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
  • The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

    — John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
    0
  • Christianity is part of the law of England.

    — John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
    0
  • Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

    — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
    0
  • You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

    — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
    0
  • Nature is always wise in every part.

    — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • 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
    0
  • War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

    — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
    0
  • That what is agreed to be done, must be considered as done.

    — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
    0
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