Consideration Quote by William E. Gladstone

“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.” quote by William E. Gladstone — Download Open image

“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.”

William E. Gladstone

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One example is worth a thousand arguments.

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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 odious.

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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

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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…

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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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