Quotes from Henry Bolingbroke

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.