That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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.
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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?
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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
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