Thomas B. Macaulay
12 quotations
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.