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Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
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City of Liverpool
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The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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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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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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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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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
William E. Gladstone
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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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. Gladstone
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
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