Macaulay

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    “In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “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 (1800–1859)