Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. - Thomas B. Macaulay

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. - Thomas B. Macaulay

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. - Thomas B. Macaulay

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. - Thomas B. Macaulay

Reform, that we may preserve. - Thomas B. Macaulay

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

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 learned to swim. - Thomas B. Macaulay

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. - Thomas B. Macaulay

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. - Thomas B. Macaulay

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. - Thomas B. Macaulay

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