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“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Source : Attributed; no source found
#Education Quotes
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#Impossible Quotes
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“The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Source : "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 221), 1904.
#Military Quotes
#Soldier Quotes
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“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.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Source : "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 221), 1904.
#Military Quotes
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“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.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
#Men Quotes
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“A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
#Funny Quotes
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“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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#Wells Quotes
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“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.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Source : 'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131
#Kings Quotes
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“Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 366), 1895.
#Real Quotes
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“Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
#Knowledge Quotes
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#Difficulty Quotes
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“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?”
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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