A biography for Thomas Babington Macaulayhasn’t been written yet.
“מטרת הפילוסופיה של אפלטון: להעלות את האדם לדרגתו של אל.”
“סיבתן העיקרית של מהפכות: בעוד שהאומות מתקדמות, החוקות נשארות מאחור.”
“אופי האדם נמדד על פי מה שהיה עושה אילו ידע כי איש לא יידע על כך לעולם.”
“הטובה שבממשלות היא זו הרוצה ויודעת כיצד להפוך אנשים למאושרים.”
“בכל דור ודור, השפלים שבטיפוסים נמצאים בין הדמגוגים.”
“We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.”
“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.”
“Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.”
“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
“The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
“The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.”
“The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.”
“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”
“That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.”
“An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.”
“There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.”