All Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
- 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… Days
- People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. Crushed
- There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Acquired
- To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. Aim
- Everybody's business is nobody's business. Business
- He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing… Abdicated
- The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as… Allies
- Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. Been
- In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men… America
- What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a… Age
- The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. Chief
- Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the… Bears
- Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. Acquisition
- Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular. Almost Every
- Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its… Assuredly
- That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Best
- How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. Brave
- The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. Best
- I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. Bear
- A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who… Abuse