Quotes by : Macaulay

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy....

Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon....

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

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

The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.

The art of making much show with little substance.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.