Quotes by Macaulay, Thomas B.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; >>

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is bel >>

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the >>

Quotations about History and Historians

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, e >>

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but become >>

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is >>

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

Macaulay, Thomas B.