Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
420
AUTHOR:
Thomas Babington Macaulay (180059)
QUOTATION:
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilisation, or both.
ATTRIBUTION:
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, letter to Henry Stephens Randall, May 23, 1857.The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, ed. Thomas Pinney, vol. 6, p. 94 (1981).