Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Beauty, Power, Alone

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Become, Sit, Realm

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

Good, Men, Knowledge

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Truth, Alone, Object

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Pain, Pleasure, Gave

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

Freedom, Evils, Cure

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.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Second, Navy, Gentlemen

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Thomas B. Macaulay

God, Philosophy, Whole

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Great, Knowledge, Science

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Thomas B. Macaulay

Great, May, Around

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Age, Great, Wonderful

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Public, Morality, Ridiculous

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
Thomas B. Macaulay

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Nationality: English

Type: Historian

Born: 1800

Died: 1859

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