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Famous Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
“A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.”
“The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.”
“A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.”
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
“I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.”
“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
“Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.”
“With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.”
“The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.”
“She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.”
“A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”
“We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.”
“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
“The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.”
“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”