Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a patern…

Thomas B. Macaulay
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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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