Category: Quote of the Day

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

To every man upon this earth

Death cometh soon or late.

And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers,

And the temples of his gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

31OCT2023 – Quote of the Day

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The ambassador [of Russia] and the grandees who accompanied him were so gorgeous that all London crowded to stare at them, and so filthy that nobody dared to touch them. They came to the court balls dropping pearls and vermin.

Thomas Babington Macaulay