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Thomas Babington Macaulay on Independence Day

1800–1859 England

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If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed have to wait forever.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

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

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?

Many evils, no doubt, were produced by the civil war. They were the price of our liberty.

Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)

"We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation."

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