Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas B. Macaulay
Church
Handmaid
Handmaids
Steady
Tyranny
Atheism
Liberty
Enemy
More quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Complete self-devotion is woman's part.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
Thomas B. Macaulay
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.
Thomas B. Macaulay
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
Thomas B. Macaulay
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action it inspires no enthusiasm it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
Thomas B. Macaulay
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
Thomas B. Macaulay
He had done that which could never be forgiven he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
Thomas B. Macaulay
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.
Thomas B. Macaulay
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
Thomas B. Macaulay
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!
Thomas B. Macaulay
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
Thomas B. Macaulay
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
Thomas B. Macaulay