Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Eulogy, Lasts

• We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Revolution, Violent, Outrage

• Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Mean, Greatness

• The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Moving, Revolution, Causes

  Speech on Parliamentary Reform, 1831.

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