| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1151 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59) |
| QUOTATION: | No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, speech on parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831.—The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17, p. 14 (1900).
See also No. 1153. |
| SUBJECTS: | Man |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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