212 Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

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.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.