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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Written by 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.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Written by 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?
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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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.
Written by 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.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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?
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Written by 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.
Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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