Quotes by : Thomas Babington Macaulay

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.....

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

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

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

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

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

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

Thus spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate. To all men upon this Earth, death cometh soon or....