American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the — Thomas Babington Macaulay
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best — Thomas Babington Macaulay
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go — Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may — Thomas Babington Macaulay
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. — 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
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words — Thomas Babington Macaulay
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
She thoroughly understands what no other church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. — 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 english bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he wouldthe measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. never be found out. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of charles the second. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a God. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, reform, that you may preserve! — Thomas Babington Macaulay