Quotes by : Thomas Babington Macaulay

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest....

Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor....

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought....

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live....

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

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.