All Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
- Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. Advances
- Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. All
- The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its… Alone
- The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Alone
- Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. Action
- The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Good
- Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action;… Action
- History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the… Action
- Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. Advertising
- Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. Amongst
- Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief… Belief
- I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything. Belief
- We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents Accidents
- He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave. Forgave
- The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution. Eulogy
- Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Certain
- Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! Events
- Reform, that we may preserve. Inspirational
- Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. Half
- History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. Accidental