William E. Gladstone Quotes

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• National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this…
• It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
• The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
• I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
• Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
• If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of…
• 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…
• To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
• The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
• Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.
• 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…
• Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
• Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
• 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…
• Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies…
• One example is worth a thousand arguments.
• Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
• He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
• It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice…

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