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M . Stronger by being united. - Unitate fortior
M'Culloch. . Labour is the talisman that has raised man from the condition of the savage.
Macaulay. . An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
Macaulay. . Analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect.
Macaulay. . Delusion may triumph, but the triumphs of delusion are but for a day.
Macaulay. . Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action.
Macaulay. . Governments exist only for the good of the
Macaulay. . Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
Macaulay. . Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty.
Macaulay. . He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, produce all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than another, merely because he tells more truth.
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