Hugh Henry Brackenridge

thumb|Hugh Henry Brackenridge Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. 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 Category:1748 births Category:1816 deaths Category:Authors from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Judges from the United States Category:People from Pennsylvania Category:Princeton University alumni