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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 736 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59) |
| QUOTATION: | We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, speech on parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831.—The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17, p. 13 (1900). |
| SUBJECTS: | Government |
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