Thomas B Macaulay quotes

" First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. " # Peace

" The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. " # Character

" One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. " # Evil # Hope # Love

" Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back. " # Love # Friends and Friendship # Freedom

" 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. " # History and Historians # Action # Government

" Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. " # Luck

" Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you. " # Perfection # Doctors # Patience

" Of two evils we must always choose the least. " # Evil

" And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. " # Mind

" The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. " # Persuasion # Truth # Speakers and Speaking