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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.

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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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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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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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 the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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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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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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