“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
3 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
“Many politicians of our time 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 in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”