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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
Diplomat
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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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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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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
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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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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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All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
William E. Gladstone
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
William E. Gladstone
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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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
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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 no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William E. Gladstone
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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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
William E. Gladstone
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
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.
William E. Gladstone
Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
William E. Gladstone
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
William E. Gladstone
