Zitate von Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Wir beklagen die Gewalttaten, welche Revolutionen begleiten. Aber je heftiger die Gewalttaten sind, desto mehr erhellt es für uns, daß eine Revolution notwendig war.
Informationen über Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Politiker, Historiker (Schottland, 1800 - 1859).
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay wäre heute 223 Jahre, 6 Monate, 22 Tage oder 81.654 Tage alt.
Geboren am 25.10.1800 in Rothley Temple (Leicestershire)
Gestorben am 28.12.1859 in Kensington (London)
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion
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Weitere 78 Zitate von Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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The gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scares of disease.
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The highest proof of virtue is to prossess boundless power without abusing it.
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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth.
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The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves.
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The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities.
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Then none was for a party; / Then all were for the state.
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This province of literature [history] is a debatable line. It lies on the confines of two distinct territories . . . It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory.
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Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay, but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds, / For the ashes of his fathers, / And the temples of his Gods?
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Was none who would be foremost / To lead such dire attack; / But those behind cried "Forward!" / And those before cried "Back!"
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We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.
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We have heard it said that five percents is the natural interest of money.
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.
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Le puritain haïssait les combats d'ours, non parce que ces jeux causaient à l'ours des souffrances mais parce qu'ils causaient du plaisir aux spectateurs.
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