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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
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[An] Established Clergy will always be a Tory Corps d'Armée.
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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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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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The first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.
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There is scarcely a single moral action of a single man of which other men can have such a knowledge, in its ultimate grounds, its surrounding incidents, and the real determining cause of its merits, as to warrant their pronouncing a conclusive judgement upon it.
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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
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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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I will venture to say, that upon the one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to lead to a conclusion are truth, justice, and humanity—upon these, gentlemen, all the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
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At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come…unmuzzled.
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
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William Ewart Gladstone
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Born:
December 29, 1809
Died:
May 19, 1898
(aged 88)
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William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times, more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times.
Known for:
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age (1858)
The Impregnable Rock Of Holy Scripture (1890)
The Power of Twelve
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