Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotations

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

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.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.