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William E. Gladstone has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go…
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and…
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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in…
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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…
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To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.
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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…
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere…
— Jeremy Bentham
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The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
— Lincoln Steffens
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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…
— William E. Gladstone
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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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