"People crushed by law have no hopes but……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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137 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay has 137 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
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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…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
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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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More Crushed Quotes
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised.…
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When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced,…
— Henri Frédéric Amiel
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in…
— Murray Rothbard
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult…
— Erwin Rommel
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
— Walt Whitman
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments…
— Clarence Day
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown…
— George Sand
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the…
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