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Liberty 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
- And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to…
- 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…
- There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of…
- I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
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