1.
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.
Henry Bolingbroke
2.
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke
3.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke
4.
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Henry Bolingbroke
5.
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
Henry Bolingbroke
6.
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.
Henry Bolingbroke