Quotes by Henry Bolingbroke

• 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.
• The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
• 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.