Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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

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.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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.