Thomas B. Macaulay Quote

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

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About Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy.
Macaulay's The History of England, which expressed his belief in the superiority of the Western European culture and of the inevitability of its sociopolitical progress, is a seminal example of Whig history commended for its prose style.