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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
Diplomat
Leader
Politician
Statistician
City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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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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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
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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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It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
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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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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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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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Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
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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.
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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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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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
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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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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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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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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
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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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