Society Ought Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
• To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
• A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
• In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
• The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
• None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
• The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
• Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
• And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
• Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
• There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
• [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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