Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 25th October, 1800 |
| Death: | 28th December, 1859 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Historian, Poet, Politician |
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Macaulay was the eldest child of Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish Highlander, who became a colonial governor and abolitionist and Selena Mills who was a former pupil of Hannah More. Thomas Macaulay was born in Leicestershire, England, where he was noted as a child prodigy.
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