Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. – James Russell Lowell
