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Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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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,…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask…
— Matt Groening
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How great in number are the little minded men
— Plautus
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Little things please little minds.
— Ovid
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
— Frank Moore Colby
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The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe…
— Molly Ivins
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows…
— Frederick The Great
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When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to…
— William Gurnall
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Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.
— Adrian Rogers
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You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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