All Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
- Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the… All
- This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant. Any
- And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Ashes
- The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Actions
- I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. Book
- 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… Down
- Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. General
- A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. Breaker
- He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Among
- The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. Estate
- 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… Army
- We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. British
- 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… Borrowed
- What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the… Able
- Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense… Any
- I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. Been
- The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on… Admiration
- A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. Cedar
- As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Advances
- The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by… Association