William E. Gladstone Quotes
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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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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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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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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
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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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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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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
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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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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
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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.
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As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.