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

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

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About Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician.

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Native Name: Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1. Baron Macaulay of Rothley
Alternative Names: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay • Thomas Babington Macaulay • Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
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We know of no great revolution which might not have been prevented by compromise early and graciously made... [I]n all movements of the human mind which tend to great revolutions there is a crisis at which moderate concession may amend, conciliate, and preserve.
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