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Quote from Thomas Babington Macaulay,


"The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well.
But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way
than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?"


By:

Thomas Babington Macaulay (more quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay or books by/about Thomas Babington Macaulay)


(1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian

Source:

"Southey's Colloquies on Society" par. SC.60

Courtesy of:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/macS1.html

Categories:

Communism, Freedom, Government, Socialism, Liberty

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