Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (Scottish Jurist, Politician)

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, (1778–1868) was a Scottish jurist, British Whig Party politician, reformer, orator, and Lord Chancellor of England 1830–34.

Born in Edinburgh, Brougham went to Edinburgh University aged 14, and in 1802 co-founded the influential Edinburgh Review, to which he was a prolific contributor. Aware that his Liberal views were ahead of their time for Scotland, he moved to London, was called to the Bar in 1808, and entered Parliament in 1810. As a barrister, his greatest triumph was the successful defense of Queen Caroline of Brunswick in 1820.

Before and during his tenure as lord chancellor, he sponsored numerous major legal reforms and played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. He established the judicial committee of the Privy Council and the Central Criminal Court. In 1825–28, he created the University of London, the first nondenominational institution of higher learning in England.

Brougham was the namesake of the brougham carriage, a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage that was popular in the 19th century. He is remembered, too, for delivering the longest (six-hour) speech in the House of Commons in 1828.

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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
Topics: Knowledge

There is a law above all human enactments, written upon the heart by the finger of God; and while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Topics: Slavery

There have been periods when the country heard with dismay that “the soldier was abroad.” That is not the case now. Let the soldier be abroad; in the present age he can do nothing. 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, for upholding and extending the liberties of his country.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Topics: Teachers, Teaching, Education

The true test of a great man—that, at least, which must secure his place among the highest order of great men—is, his having been in advance of his age.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Topics: Greatness

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
Topics: Government, Life, Education

I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the law giver 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. Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful and hard; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown to be an adult, as the most atrocious crimes are to any of your lordships. Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth, of carefully respecting the properly 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 an element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying, or cheating, or stealing.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Topics: Habit

A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Topics: Justice, Lawyers, Law

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Topics: Books, Reading

I abominate war as unchristian. I hold it to be the greatest of human crimes, and 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
Topics: War

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