It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public
good.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduc...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dial...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
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 I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles
the Second. But the seamen were ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster
than you think.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James
II) served his turn. It was his h...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a g...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the im...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a litt...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She [the Roman Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, bee...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy libert...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY