William Ewart Gladstone Short Quotes

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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

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One prayer absorbs all others: Ireland, Ireland, Ireland.

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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

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[An] Established Clergy will always be a Tory Corps d'Armée.

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Welsh nationality is as great a reality as English nationality.

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This is the negation of God erected into a system of Government.

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The first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.

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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

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At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come…unmuzzled.

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To treat a man as the enemy of Science is to treat him as the enemy of Truth.

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Former Prime Ministers are like great rafts floating untethered in a harbour.

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The love of freedom itself is hardly stronger in England than the love of aristocracy.

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Human justice is ever lagging after wrong, as the prayers in Homer came limping after sin.

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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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There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down that had either morals or principles.

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Finance is, as it were, the stomach of the country, from which all the other organs take their tone.

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I am sorry to say that I have a long speech fermenting in me, and I feel as a loaf might in the oven.

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The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.

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Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism is distrust of the people, tempered by fear.

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Your business is not to govern the country but it is, if you think fit, to call to account those who do govern it.

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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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The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.

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The domestic use of tea is a powerful champion able to encounter alcoholic drink in a fair field and throw it in a fair fight.

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I would tell them of my own intention to keep my counsel…and I will venture to recommend them, as an old Parliamentary hand, to do the same.

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To the actual, as distinct from the reported, strength of the Empire, India adds nothing. She immensely adds to the responsibility of Government.

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This, if I understand it, is one of those golden moments of our history, one of those opportunities which may come and may go, but which rarely returns.

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