16 Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay


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

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 on alone

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

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 on beauty

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay on freedom

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

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas B. Macaulay on government

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

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 on knowledge

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Thomas B. Macaulay on money

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

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas B. Macaulay on poetry

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay on politics

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 on science

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay on wisdom

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