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Quote by Thomas Macaulay
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that n

Many politicians lay 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

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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

Category:
Independence Day
Author
Thomas Macaulay
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A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

Category:
Hypocrisy
Author
Thomas Macaulay
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. – Author Unknown

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Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. – Author Unknown

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Swimming

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? – Steven Wright

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. – Mark Twain

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