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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
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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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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
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Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
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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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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
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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 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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To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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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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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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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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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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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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