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.

Published on March 30, 2016 , under Quotes
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Source: Southey’s Colloquies on Society (1830) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay.

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. - Thomas W. Higginson

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