Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes


Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! - Thomas Babington Macaulay


We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


These be the great Twin Brethren / To whom the Dorians pray. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


Then none was for a party; / Then all were for the state; / Then the great man helped the poor. / And the poor man loved the great. - Thomas Babington Macaulay


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