Skip to content
Shawords

Quote#Freedom

We know that India cannot have a free Government. But she may have…

Quote byThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay · 1800–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Minute (c. 1838), quoted in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume I (1876), p. 396.

English (original)

We know that India cannot have a free Government. But she may have the next best thing,—a firm and impartial despotism.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

More from Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay