Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes


Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.


Citations

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Dryden." The Edinburgh Review, vol. 47, no. 93, Jan. 1828, p. 3.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • Born: October 25, 1800
  • Died: December 28, 1859
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Politician, Historian

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century.