Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”

“To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.”

“Reform, that we may preserve.”

“A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.”

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

“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.”

“Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.”

“The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.”

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

“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”