Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. Use this quote
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Use this quote
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. Use this quote
