"The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on……" — Thomas B. Macaulay

"The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution."

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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 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…
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…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
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…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. — George Carlin
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented… — Herbert Hoover
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as… — Albert Camus
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog,… — Peggy Noonan
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our… — Arianna Huffington
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant… — Woody Allen
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against… — Aeschylus
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in… — Abraham Lincoln

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