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“That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.”

Setting a simple standard for good governance in terms of public welfare · Essay, On Mitford's History of Greece, Knight's Quarterly Magazine, November 1824

About Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay

25 October 1800–28 December 1859

Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire and died on 28 December 1859 at Kensington, London. He was at once a poet, essayist, parliamentarian, colonial administrator, historian, reviewer, and one of the most commanding prose stylists in nineteenth-century English. To…

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