“He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay)
“Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay)
“Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay)
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay)
“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay)