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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

«An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia»
«From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife»
«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»
«Now who will stand on either hand / And keep the bridge with me?»
«The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.»
«We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents»
«The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.»
«We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality»
«I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both»
«This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant»

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