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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
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Politician
Statistician
City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
Gladstone
W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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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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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
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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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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.
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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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[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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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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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
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He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
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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 thorough in all you do and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
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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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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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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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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.
William E. Gladstone
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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