There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
From Thomas Babington Macaulay
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
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.
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