Catharine Macaulay Quotes
Catharine Macaulay was an English historian and republican political philosopher whose eight-volume History of England from the Accession of James I to the Hanoverian Succession was one of the most widely read English histories of the eighteenth century. Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to Be Found in Mr Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments and her Letters on Education defended a republican view of liberty against Hobbesian sovereignty and an egalitarian education for women on broadly Lockean grounds. The quotes below are attributed to Catharine Macaulay, organized by topic.
Catharine Macaulay on Freedom
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Attributed to Catharine Macaulay:
“Liberty is the right and duty of every reasoning being.”
Catharine Macaulay on Mind
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Attributed to Catharine Macaulay:
“Reason knows no sex; whoever can reason has a claim to the fruits of reason.”
Catharine Macaulay on Politics
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Attributed to Catharine Macaulay:
“A government founded on coercion is a government in flight from its own legitimacy.”
Catharine Macaulay on Time
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Attributed to Catharine Macaulay:
“History is the patient teacher of the present.”
Catharine Macaulay on Virtue
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Attributed to Catharine Macaulay:
“Education must form the character before the mind, or it forms neither well.”