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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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781 |
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AUTHOR:
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Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59) |
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QUOTATION:
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The business of government is not directly to make the people rich, but to protect them in making themselves rich; and a government which attempts more than this is precisely the government which is likely to perform less. Governments do not and cannot support the people. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, speech on parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831.—The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17, p. 39 (1900). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Government—purpose of |
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