That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas B. MacaulayThose who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
Thomas B. MacaulayMen naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.
Thomas B. Macaulay