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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1. Baron Macaulay, war ein britischer Historiker, Dichter und Politiker. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Oktober 1800 – 28. Dezember 1859  •  Andere Namen Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Macaulay
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“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay buch Lays of Ancient Rome

Horatius, st. 26 & 27; this quote is often truncated to read:
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Kontext: Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods, And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?"

“Then none was for a party,
Then all were for the state;
Then the rich man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great;
Then lands were fairly portioned,
Then spoils were fairly sold;
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay buch Lays of Ancient Rome

Horatius, st. 32 & 33
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Kontext: p>Then none was for a party,
Then all were for the state;
Then the rich man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great;
Then lands were fairly portioned,
Then spoils were fairly sold;
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.Now Roman is to Roman
More hateful than a foe;
And the Tribunes beard the high
and the fathers grind the low;
As we wax hot in faction,
In battle we wax cold;
And men fight not as they fought
In the brave days of old.</p

“With weeping and with laughter
Still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay buch Lays of Ancient Rome

Horatius, st. 70
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Kontext: When the goodman mends his armor,
And trims his helmet's plume;
When the goodwife's shuttle merrily
Goes flashing through the loom;
With weeping and with laughter
Still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.

“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

According to Kenneth Owen Morgan (The Illustrated History of Britain (1984) p. 421) this was said by Macaulay in 1832. If so, he was quoting a letter written by Edmund Burke in 1777.
Attributed

“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

On the Athenian Orators http://books.google.com/books?id=qb0OAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;The+object+of+oratory+alone+is+not+truth+but+persuasion&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA135#v=onepage (August 1824)

“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in the country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

This quotation is commonly said to have been spoken by Macaulay during a speech to the British Parliament in 1835. Since Macaulay was in India at the time, it is more likely to have come from his Minute on Indian Education http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_minute_education_1835.html. However, these words do not appear in that text. According to Koenraad Elst http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/hinduism/macaulay.html, these words were printed in The Awakening Ray, Vol. 4, No. 5, published by the Gnostic Center, preceded by: &quot;His words were to the effect.&quot; Burjor Avari cites this misattribution as an example of &quot;tampering with historical evidence&quot; in India: The Ancient Past ISBN 9780415356169, pp. 19–20), writes: &quot;No proof of this statement has been found in any of the volumes containing the writings and speeches of Macaulay. In a journal in which the extract appeared, the writer did not reproduce the exact wording of the Minutes, but merely paraphrased them, using the qualifying phrase: ‘His words were to the effect.:’ This is extremely mischievous, as numerous interpretations can be drawn from the Minutes.&quot; For a full discussion, see Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012) Chapter 3 <br class="br">Misattributed

“Reform, that we may preserve.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Debate on the First Reform Bill (2 March 1831)

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