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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
Diplomat
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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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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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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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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.
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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
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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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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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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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I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
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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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