Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
Thomas Babington Macaulay