Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Mean, Fate

• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

• Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Blessing, Government

  "Essay on Mitford's History of Greece" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1824.

• No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Men, May

  "The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 14, speech on parliamentary reform (March 2, 1831), 1900.

• At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Grace

• Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Support, Fantasy

• There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, School, Government

• There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Running, Country, Europe

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