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...
may reform preserves
Reform, that we may preserve.
voice reform may
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
poetry mind certain
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
history eulogy lasts
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
history done forgiven
He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
wish belief
I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
inspire infidelity world
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.
community liberty may
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.
liberty useless opinion
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
knowledge knowing-everything cedars
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
freedom civilization democracies-have
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
morality ridiculous fit
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
army navy gentleman
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
estates gallery realms
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.