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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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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William Gladstone
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The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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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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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
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It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.
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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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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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Be thorough in all you do and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
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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.
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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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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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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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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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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