Quotes by Macaulay, Thomas B.

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth >>

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. >>

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. >>

Quotations about Persecution

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. >>

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little >>

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

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Macaulay, Thomas B.