William E. Gladstone Quotes

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• We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than… Bound
• All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. All
• The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. All
• 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… Afghanistan
• 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… Both
• Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they… Bid
• If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you;… Calm
• Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through… Belief
• You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side. Cannot Fight
• The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library… Arranged
• You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. Cannot Fight
• It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. All
• No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. Became
• This is the negation of God erected into a system of government. Erected

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