Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PCwas a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. He was a member of the Babington family by virtue of his aunt's marriage to Thomas Babington...
war civilization citizens
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
religion awake hippopotamus
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
oratory persuasion power-of-persuasion
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
god father men
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
advertising making-money mint
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
humor government broken
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
mixtures portraits painting
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
constitution despots
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
kings book desire
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
law people enemy
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
inspirational inspiring integrity
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
art philosophy history
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
lying history gold
Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.
art men abuse
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.