Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux: Doing

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux was English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux: 32 quotes 1 like

“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

Speech, Opening of Parliament (January 29, 1828), reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 221.

Age , Country

“Do you think that a reporter has a right to supply or suppress any part of a judgment?”

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Cadell v. Palmer (1833), 1 Cl. & F. 372.

Thinking , Parting

“The Sovereign can only act by advisers, and through the instrumentality of those who are neither infallible nor impeccable— answerable, indeed, for all that the irresponsible Sovereign may do, but liable to err through undue influence, and to be swayed by improper motives.”

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Brownlow v. Egerton (1854), 23 L. J. Rep. Part 5 (N. S.), Ch. 390; 8 St. Tr. (N. S.) 258.

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