Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 25, 1800

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

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

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

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.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Thomas Babington Macaulay