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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

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

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Good Best Constitution Better Than

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Great Voice You Events Turn Within

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Church She Deal Understood How Ever

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Government People Fall Train Go Way

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Men Settle Never Question Discuss

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Community Saying Rest Opinions May

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Best Opinion Society Say True Whose

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Natural Persecution Made Effect Them

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Morality Know Ridiculous British

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Age Great Genius Wonderful Hold

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

God Man Philosophy Say Aim Up

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Freedom Only Cure Evils Which Newly

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