Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
It was the boast of Augustus that he foundRome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letterfound it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poorfound it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. Henry Brougham»
