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Don’t let them take you alive

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 29, 2020Categories external authority, individualismTags Thomas Babington Macaulay

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