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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.
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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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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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
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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.
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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 more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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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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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!
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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 am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
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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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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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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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