Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Quotes

•          That Liberty,
  Which, not the thunder of Bellona's voice,
  With fleets, and armies, from the British shore,
  Shall wrest from us.
  • The Battle of Bunkers-Hill (1776), act 5, sc. 1 (loq. Warren)

Modern Chivalry (1792)

• Gravity is the most practical qualification of the physician.
  • vol. 2, bk. 2, ch. 9 (ed. 1815)

• When the patient is dead, it was the disease killed him, not the Doctor. Dead men tell no tales.
  • vol. 2, bk. 2, ch. 9 (ed. 1815)

• Experience is a great softener of the mind; it gives knowledge.
  • vol. 2, bk. 2, ch. 14 (ed. 1815)

External links

• David Powell (ed.) The Wisdom of the Novel: A Dictionary of Quotations (1985), p. 400
• Frederick Clarke Prescott (ed.) Prose and Poetry of the Revolution (1925), p. 237