Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
Thomas B. MacaulayNobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Thomas B. MacaulayWe are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
Thomas B. MacaulayIt is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.
Thomas B. MacaulayHe who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.
Thomas B. Macaulay