Macaulay

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“Many politicians of our time 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 until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

“Such night in England ne’er had been, nor e’er again shall be.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)