The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Thomas B. MacaulayWe must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
Thomas B. MacaulayThe perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
Thomas B. MacaulayNo war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.
Thomas B. Macaulay