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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

«A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in»
«Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.»
«He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.»
«The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve»
«The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators»
«In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.»
«Many politicians lay 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.»
«A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.»
«The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.»
«A propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.»

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