Argument Quote by William E. Gladstone

“Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.” quote by William E. Gladstone — Download Open image

“Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.”

William E. Gladstone

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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

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It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

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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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