Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

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.

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.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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