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Thomas Babington Macaulay
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" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
British
Morality
Ridiculous
" To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Knowledge
Great
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
Whose
Opinion
" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Than
Utopia
Better
" Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Maxim
Nothing
Useless
" He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Packing
He
Talent
" I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Desire
Without
Than
" 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
Aim
God
Man
" And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Ashes
Odds
Die
" He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Scholar
Scholars
Rake
" Reform, that we may preserve. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Reform
May
Preserve
" 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. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Charles
Gentlemen
Navy
" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mind
Enjoy
Person
" Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Persecution
Them
Made
" 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
May
Community
Rest
" That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Best
Desires
People
" A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Constitution
Good
Best
" Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Man
World
Temple
" Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Birth
Government
People
" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Advances
Almost
Civilization
" She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
She
Understood
Church
" American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Democracy
Failure
Society
" The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mixture
Best
Portraits
" There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Evils
Newly
Freedom
" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Habit
Fool
Water
" A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Breaker
Coming
May
" The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Object
Truth
Persuasion
" The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Estate
Gallery
Realm
" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Man
Will
Wicked
" None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Security
Far
Birth