That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas B. MacaulayThose who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.
Thomas B. MacaulayTo be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
Thomas B. Macaulay