Not who you're looking for? Others named Thomas Babington: British politician ( 1758 – 1837)
“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
“Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.”
“In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.”
“A man who has never been within the tropics does not know what a thunderstorm means; a man who has never looked on Niagara has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barère's Memoirs may be said not to know what it is to lie.”
“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.”
“I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”
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