Quote by Thomas Macaulay
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evid

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

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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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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

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If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. – Hamilton Fish

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. – Thomas Paine

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

Without freedom, no one really has a name. – Milton Acorda

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