• 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.

    Thomas B. Macaulay: 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.
    "Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches" by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Volume 4, 2007.