macaulay Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about macaulay.
“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 B. 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 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 B. 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 B. Macaulay
“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
- Thomas B. Macaulay
“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”
- Thomas B. 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 B. Macaulay
“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”
- Thomas B. Macaulay