Excerpted from a speech given in the House of Commons on the civil disabilities of the Jews, April 17, 1833: "Let us do justice to them. Let us open to them the door of the House of Commons. Let us open to them every career in which ability and energy can be displayed."
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC (1800–1859) was a British poet, historian, and Whig politician. He wrote extensively on British history.