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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. — Florence Nightingale

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — 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

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Reform, that we may preserve. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. — 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

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. — 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 useless as a general maxim. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. — 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

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
Another for the pot! — 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

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. — 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

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — 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

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read — 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