Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes

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 le

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

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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.

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

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Many politicians lay it down as a self evident proposition that no people ought to be free until 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 until he had learned how to swim.

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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.

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Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme today the helmet of Navarre.

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The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

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