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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
Diplomat
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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
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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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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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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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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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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
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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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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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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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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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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To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
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