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  -- Thomas Macaulay...
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• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), "History of England...
• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay...
• This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)...
• If you are not the poet, perhaps you can be the poem.
• Many politicians ... are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
  The maxim is worthy of the fool who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim....
• I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
  -- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Benjamin Rush (1800)...