Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

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

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.

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

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

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

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.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.