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Government Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
- The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for…
- Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which…
- We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
- History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the…
- We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
- Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
- Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its…
- That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
- It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat…
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