Quotes for English Learners
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Lord Macaulay
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Lord Macaulay
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Lord Macaulay :
A good constitution A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Lord Macaulay |
politics
American democracy American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Lord Macaulay |
politics
Discussing it freely Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Lord Macaulay |
freedom
Enemies to laws People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Lord Macaulay |
power
I would rather be poor I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Lord Macaulay |
developmental
The government and the people The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
Lord Macaulay |
politics
To be fit to use their freedom Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Lord Macaulay |
politics
Virtue The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay |
developmental
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