212 Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

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.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school – its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.