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Letter "T" » Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
«An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia»
«From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
Byron, Commandments, compounded, Drew, Lord Byron, misanthropy, voluptuousness
«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, befallen, befalls, calamities, deceivers, destroyers, foundering, founders, human origin, noted, origin, tenths, The Destroyers, The Founders, the union
«Now who will stand on either hand / And keep the bridge with me?»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
«The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
emphatically, England, The History, The History of
«We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Government,
Judgement,
Politics
| Keywords:
accidents, form of government, General Government, tendency
«The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
estate, estate of the realm, fourth, fourth estate, galleries, gallery, realm, Reporters, The Reporter
«We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
British, fits, periodical, public morality, spectacle, the British
«I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
institutions, purely, sooner or later
«This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant»
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