Thomas Babington Macaulay Quote

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.


Southey's Colloquies on Society (1830)


Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells...

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells...

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells...

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells...