About Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. Wikipedia
October 25, 1800, Leicestershire, England
December 28, 1859, London, England
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay Quotes

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
Southey’s Colloquies.
He was a rake among scholars and a scholar among rakes.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
Review of Aiken’s Life of Addison.
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Warren Hastings. 1841.
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Mitford’s History of Greece (1824)
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Mitford’s History of Greece (1824)
Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,—there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Mitford’s History of Greece (1824)
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Milton (1825)
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Milton (1825)
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Milton (1825)
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On John Dryden. 1828.
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Horace Walpole. 1833.
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
On Frederic the Great. 1842.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
History of England
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Everybody's business is nobody's business.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay