Quotes from Thomas Macaulay

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.