"It is difficult to see anything but infatuation……" — William E. Gladstone
"It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi."
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William E. Gladstone
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54 Quotes by William E. Gladstone
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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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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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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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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