Many politicians of our time 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... Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Página 62por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 211 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| David M. Levy - 2001 - 340 páginas
...become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it "Many politicians of our time are in the habit of...self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free until they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved... | |
| Thomas Szasz - 2003 - 254 páginas
...because of who he is and what he decides. Jim Crow Psychiatry II: The Patient Self-Determination Act Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
| Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 2003 - 552 páginas
...become, as opposed to me, the instruments of my oppression. — Mikhail Bakunin • Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. — Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay • They that can give up essential liberty to... | |
| Friedrich August von Hayek - 2005 - 610 páginas
...Critical and Histoncal Essays, Neuauflage, London 1872, S. 20: »Many pohticians of our time are m the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition,...who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may... | |
| Bob Fenster - 2005 - 331 páginas
...Macaulay-'The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." 3. From writer Catherine Aird-"lf you can't be a good example, then you'll just have... | |
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