Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.” ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historianSource: "Southey's Colloquies on Society" par. SC.62