Famous quotes by Historians

"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Be assured, those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee"

Tacitus, Historian

"Greater things are believed of those who are absent"

Tacitus, Historian

"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

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

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

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

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir"

Tacitus, Historian

"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor"

Tacitus, Historian

"Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop"

Tacitus, Historian

"All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end"

Tacitus, Historian

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all"

Tacitus, Historian

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty"

Tacitus, Historian

"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous"

Tacitus, Historian

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise"

Tacitus, Historian

"Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from"

Tacitus, Historian

"Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it"

Tacitus, Historian

"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure"

Tacitus, Historian

"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"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"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"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 B. Macaulay, Historian

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