Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “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.” ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historianSource: "Southey's Colloquies on Society" par. SC.69