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“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On the Athenian Orators http://books.google.com/books?id=qb0OAAAAYAAJ&q="The+object+of+oratory+alone+is+not+truth+but+persuasion"&pg=PA135#v=onepage (August 1824)

Truth

“That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1831)

Love , Books

“It would be, on the most selfish view of the case, far better for us that the people of India were well governed and independent of us, than ill governed and subject to us; that they were ruled by their own kings, but wearing our broadcloth, and working with our cutlery, than that they were performing their salams to English collectors and English magistrates, but were too ignorant to value, or too poor to buy, English manufactures. To trade with civilised men is infinitely more profitable than to govern savages.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_commons_indiagovt_1833.html#13
Attributed

Men , People , Selfishness

“There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Speech in the House of Commons (14 April 1845)

“Intoxicated with animosity.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Hallam's Constitutional History

“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in the country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

This quotation is commonly said to have been spoken by Macaulay during a speech to the British Parliament in 1835. Since Macaulay was in India at the time, it is more likely to have come from his Minute on Indian Education http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_minute_education_1835.html. However, these words do not appear in that text. According to Koenraad Elst http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/hinduism/macaulay.html, these words were printed in The Awakening Ray, Vol. 4, No. 5, published by the Gnostic Center, preceded by: "His words were to the effect." Burjor Avari cites this misattribution as an example of "tampering with historical evidence" in India: The Ancient Past ISBN 9780415356169, pp. 19–20), writes: "No proof of this statement has been found in any of the volumes containing the writings and speeches of Macaulay. In a journal in which the extract appeared, the writer did not reproduce the exact wording of the Minutes, but merely paraphrased them, using the qualifying phrase: ‘His words were to the effect.:’ This is extremely mischievous, as numerous interpretations can be drawn from the Minutes." For a full discussion, see Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012) Chapter 3
Misattributed

People , Education , Travel , Thinking

“He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Review of Aiken’s Life of Addison

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Vol. I, ch. 3
History of England (1849–1861)

Pain , Hate , Pleasure

“Lars Porsena of Closium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay book Lays of Ancient Rome

Source: Horatius, st. 1, Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)

God , Suffering , Housing

“Reform, that we may preserve.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Debate on the First Reform Bill (2 March 1831)

“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.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Southey's Colloquies on Society (1830)

People , Birth , Drink , Reading

“In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Fredrick the Great (1842)

Men

“We have classical associations and great names of our own which we can confidently oppose to the most splendid of ancient times. Senate has not to our ears a sound so venerable as Parliament. We respect the Great Charter more than the laws of Solon. The Capitol and the Forum impress us with less awe than our own Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey…The list of warriors and statesmen by whom our constitution was founded or preserved, from De Montfort down to Fox, may well stand a comparison with the Fasti of Rome. The dying thanksgiving of Sydney is as noble as the libation which Thrasea poured to Liberating Jove: and we think with far less pleasure of Cato tearing out his entrails than of Russell saying, as he turned away from his wife, that the bitterness of death was past.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

' History https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55901/55901-h/55901-h.htm', Edinburgh Review (May 1828)

Death , Pleasure , Law , Confidence

“Nine-tenths the calamities of the human race are due to the union of high intelligence with low desires.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

"Lord Bacon", (1837) in Essays 2:183
Attributed

Intelligence

“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Milton (1825)

Freedom , Evil

“From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,—a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour’s wife.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)

Love , Hate

“It is odd that the last twenty-five years which have witnessed the greatest progress ever made in physical science—the greatest victories ever achieved by mind over matter—should have produced hardly a volume that will be remembered in 1900.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Diary entry (9 March 1850)

Science , Victory

“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Milton (1825)

“She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul’s.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Ranke's History of the Popes (1840)

Travel , Solitude

“Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On Lord Clive (1840)