Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes and sayings page 4 (poet). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 47 we have.
“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.”
“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”
“That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.”
“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
“I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.”
“Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.”
“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”
“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
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