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...
order long intellectual
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
running country europe
There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
criticism may poet
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
moving revolution causes
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
democracy aristocracy periods
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
evil purpose sake
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.
race purpose littles
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.
book believe school
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.
dominant
A dominant religion is never ascetic.
character mean office
Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.
government individual force
A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.
reading criticism body
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.
country support fantasy
Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.
envy sin despise
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.