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William E Gladstone Inspirational Quotes (69)

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From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
William E. Gladstone
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The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
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Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.
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The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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If you are cold, tea will warm you if you are too heated, it will cool you If you are depressed, it will cheer you If you are excited, it will calm you.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone
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