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 VauxIt 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 VauxThe 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 VauxIt is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and VauxLet 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 VauxGive 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