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William E. Gladstone

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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
Diplomat
Leader
Politician
Statistician
City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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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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Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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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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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!
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The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
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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 idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
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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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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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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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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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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
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