Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

British - Poet | October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

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

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

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

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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