Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 420 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59) |
| QUOTATION: | I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilisation, or both. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | See note at No. 334 about this letter. |
| SUBJECTS: | Democracy |