37 Quotations by Thomas B. Macaulay
- 21. The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
- 22. The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and h ...
- 23. The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suff ...
- 24. The English Bible -- a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suf ...
- 25. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
- 26. The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
- 27. The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure t ...
- 28. The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adapta ...
- 29. The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. ...
- 30. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities.
- 31. There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were no ...
- 32. Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine mo ...
- 33. To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to hav ...
- 34. Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform, that you ...
- 35. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
- 36. We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
- 37. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
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