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1809–1898 England
William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal politician and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). He was a notable political reformer, known for his populist speeches, and was for many years the main political rival of Benjamin Disraeli.
England Academics Non-fiction authors Politicians Theologians Also known as: Gladstone, Gladstone, William Ewart, William E. Gladstone, William Gladstone
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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.
I believe the slave trade to be by far the foulest crime that taints the history of mankind in any Christian or pagan country.
Yes; these are people struggling to be free, and they are struggling rightly to be free.
My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.
By force you have held it; by force you are holding it; by love we ask you to hold it.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient, as lighting by gas.
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
The Government of India is the most arduous and perhaps the noblest trust ever undertaken by a nation.
I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
As he lived, so he died — all display, without reality or genuineness.
To serve Armenia is to serve the Civilization.
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
This is the negation of God erected into a system of Government.
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.
Ireland, Ireland! That cloud in the west! That coming storm!
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
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