All Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
- It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… Able
- A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. Every Particular
- History begins in novel and ends in essay. Begins
- The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are… Accuracy
- No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing… All
- To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in… Act
- The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. Allowed
- Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. Advancement
- The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character. Character
- The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… Accommodates
- Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and… Advancement
- Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and… Age
- Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations… Abstractions
- In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. Man
- If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England… All
- A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. Actively
- A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed… Act
- Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… Action
- A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… Chat
- 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… Ancestor