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Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes

Type: Historian Quotes Category: English Historian Quotes Year of Birth: 1800 Year of Death: 1859 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Thomas B. Macaulay Related Authors: Edward Gibbon Anita Brookner John Keegan James Anthony Froude G. M. Trevelyan Henry James Sumner Maine John Acton

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. Thomas B. Macaulay A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. Thomas B. Macaulay An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas B. Macaulay And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Thomas B. Macaulay As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas B. Macaulay Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. Thomas B. Macaulay He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. Thomas B. Macaulay He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Thomas B. Macaulay I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. Thomas B. Macaulay I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. Thomas B. Macaulay I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. Thomas B. Macaulay Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. Thomas B. Macaulay Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. Thomas B. Macaulay Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. Thomas B. Macaulay Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas B. Macaulay People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay Reform, that we may preserve. Thomas B. Macaulay She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Thomas B. Macaulay Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. Thomas B. Macaulay Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. Thomas B. Macaulay That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Thomas B. Macaulay The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. Thomas B. Macaulay The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. Thomas B. Macaulay The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. Thomas B. Macaulay The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. Thomas B. Macaulay The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Thomas B. Macaulay The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas B. Macaulay The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas B. Macaulay The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas B. Macaulay There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Thomas B. Macaulay There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. Thomas B. Macaulay To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. Thomas B. Macaulay To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas B. Macaulay Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! Thomas B. Macaulay We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. Thomas B. Macaulay We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas B. Macaulay Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. Thomas B. Macaulay

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