A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves. Thomas B. Macaulay More Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay More Quotes From Thomas B. Macaulay Boswell is the first of biographers. Thomas B. Macaulay biographers firsts Complete self-devotion is woman's part. Thomas B. Macaulay devotion self In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. Thomas B. Macaulay human-nature age found Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down. Thomas B. Macaulay sects toleration clamor Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. Thomas B. Macaulay emblems piety beard All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings. Thomas B. Macaulay covering literature feelings This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. Thomas B. Macaulay miracle imagination mind In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. Thomas B. Macaulay grace imagination art The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate. Thomas B. Macaulay kismet accidents fate Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. Thomas B. Macaulay equal In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. Thomas B. Macaulay example christian fiction Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances. Thomas B. Macaulay finesse adaptation mean The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women. Thomas B. Macaulay self perfect men At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. Thomas B. Macaulay grace class country An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas B. Macaulay acres utopia earth Lars Porsena of Clusium Thomas B. Macaulay nine suffering house Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear Thomas B. Macaulay dust heart lying Was none who would be foremost Thomas B. Macaulay behinds confusion would-be War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter. Thomas B. Macaulay hate fighting war A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair. Thomas B. Macaulay despair evil character
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