Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Quotes

• “What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.”
• “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
• “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 men into a box.”
• “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.”
• “Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties”
• “Do you think that a reporter has a right to supply or suppress any part of a judgment?”

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