Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes (47 quotes)

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„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.“
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„Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.“
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„We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.“
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„Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!“
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„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.“
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„The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.“
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„The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.“
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„Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.“
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„She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.“
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„Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.“
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„There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.“
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„The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.“
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„The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.“
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„The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.“
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„The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.“
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„That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.“
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„Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.“

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Author born: August 25, 1800
Author died: December 28, 1859
Nationality: British
Author Profession: Poet

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