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Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes

British Poet August 25, 1800 – December 28, 1859

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Thomas Babington Macaulay quote: "What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be..."
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay quote: "I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books..."
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth. Death cometh soon or late. 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
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? 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. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay quote: "Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them..."
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from 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 Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay quote: "I would raher be poor in a cottage full of books than a King..."
I would raher be poor in a cottage full of books than a King without the desire to read. 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? 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
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. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay quote: "The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to..."
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay quote: "The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power..."
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay quote: "Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when..."
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. 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. Thomas Babington Macaulay

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