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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.

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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