Thomas Babington Macaulay

Many politicians 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 till he had learned to swim.

Freedom Improvement Politics

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Accountability Character Honesty

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Evil Freedom