37 Quotations by Thomas B. Macaulay
- 1. A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when i ...
- 2. A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper ...
- 3. A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
- 4. A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's w ...
- 5. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples o ...
- 6. Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so va ...
- 7. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
- 8. Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to th ...
- 9. He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
- 10. He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
- 11. History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers ...
- 12. In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
- 13. Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like ...
- 14. Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tend ...
- 15. Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people oug ...
- 16. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a me ...
- 17. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- 18. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- 19. Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
- 20. She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
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