"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 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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We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great…
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the…
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In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
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If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
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