William E. Gladstone Quotes - Page 2

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• All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

  William E. Gladstone

  Class, Political, World

  Speech, Liverpool, England, 28 June 1886

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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 wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Men, Historical

  North American Review, Sept./Oct. 1878

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• Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Association, Virtuous Woman

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• Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

  William E. Gladstone

  Wealth, Commerce, Equalizer

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• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

  William E. Gladstone

  Loyalty, Freedom, Order

  1879 Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

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• Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

  William E. Gladstone

  Hurt, Character, Men

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• I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.

  William E. Gladstone

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Gladstone's Conundrums.; The Statesman Answers Sundry Interesting Questions". www.nytimes.com. February 9, 1879.

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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 a friend than as a foe.

  William E. Gladstone

  Years, History, Stupidity

  In Margot Asquith 'More Memories' (1933) ch. 8

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• Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

  William E. Gladstone

  Dream, Time Management, Sanguine

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• Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Swimming, Men

  Written in the diary, December 31, 1868.

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• I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

  William E. Gladstone

  Character, Evil, Would Be

  Debate on the Women's Disabilities Bill in the House of Commons on May 03, 1871. "Parliamentary Debates", Volume 206, Col. 91,

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• Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Knowing, Study

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• To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

  William E. Gladstone

  Guarantees, Slender, Scepticism

  "Homeric Synchronism : An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer". Book by William E. Gladstone, 1876.

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• Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

  William E. Gladstone

  Clouds, Political, Storm

  Letter to his wife Catherine Gladstone, October 12, 1845.

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• Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

  William E. Gladstone

  Passion, Dominion, Avarice

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• For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Mind, Age

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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 could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

  William E. Gladstone

  Flower, Book, Civilization

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• The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Practice, Evil

  Speech, Plumstead, UK (1878)

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• To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Oxford, Giving

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• The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

  William E. Gladstone

  Liberty, Revolution, Conservative

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• Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

  William E. Gladstone

  God, Home, Humble

  1879 Speech at Edinburgh Foresters' Hall, during the Midlothian Campaign, 26 Nov.

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• The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

  William E. Gladstone

  War, Pestilence, Drink

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• A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

  William E. Gladstone

  Guarantees, Excess, Rivals

  "Homeric Synchronism : An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer". Book by William Ewart Gladstone, 1876.

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• A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

  William E. Gladstone

  Excess, Rivals, May

  "Homeric Synchronism: An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer". Book by William Ewart Gladstone, 1876.

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• The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

  William E. Gladstone

  Book, House, Unhappy

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