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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.
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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Politician
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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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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 think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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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.
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
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Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
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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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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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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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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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All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
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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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As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
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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 errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
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