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Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes: That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
         

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.


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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.



I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.



The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.



Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.



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 tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

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 tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.



Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.





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