Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Revolution
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The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
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The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
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Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.
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We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
- Born: October 25, 1800
- Died: December 28, 1859
- Occupation: Former Secretary at War