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Power, safely defied, touches its downfall (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries... and never pass a waking hour without a book before me (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor’s wife (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book (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 learned to swim (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O’er English dust. A broken heart lies here (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
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 (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, wilt not thou love me for myself alone? Yes, thou wilt love me with exceeding love, and I will tenfold all that love repay; still smiling, though the tender may reprove, still faithful, though the trusted may betray (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor’s wife. (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)