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… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
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,… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
War is a crime which involves all other crimes. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less imposing in… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
