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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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
William Gladstone
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W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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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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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
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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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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
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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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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
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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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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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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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Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.
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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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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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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
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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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It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
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