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.

Education Quotes, by Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux) , Source: in a speech

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Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Knowledge Quotes, by Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux) , Source: title he gave to a book published under superintendence of the Society of Useful Knowledge

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It 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.

Politics Quotes, by Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux) , Source: in the House of Commons

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