Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far…
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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold…
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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
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Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to…
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'In a democracy,' said Mr Pinfold, with more weight than originality, 'Men do not seek authority so that they may impose a policy
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Boswell is the first of biographers
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The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve
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