212 Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

In Plato’s opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon’s opinion, philosophy was made for man.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

The sweeter sound of woman’s praise.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.