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William E. Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (/ˈɡlædˌstən/; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served for twelve years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times.

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

Passion, Dominion, Avarice, Full

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Avoid, Errors, History, Order, Times

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

Knowing, Men, Study, Studying, Trained

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Fatal, Mediocrity, Poet, Successful, Writers

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Contact, Divine Revelation, Mind, World

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

Association, Men, Nothing, Refined, Virtuous Woman, Women

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Delayed, Denied, Fairness, Justice, Law

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.

Characteristically, Give, Giving, Man, Men, Oxford

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.

Historical, History, Man, Men, Proceeded, Work

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

Figure, Figures, George, History, Washington

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

Exactness, Land, Law, Loyalty, People, Sympathies

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.

Affords, Against, Degenerates, Excess, Guarantees, Irrational

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Wealth, Commerce, Equalizer

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Blessings, Life, Love, Peace, Replace, Time

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.

Apart, Character, Evil, Intervention, Would Be

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.

Attractive, Economy, Ideas, Income, Tends

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

Guarantee, Guarantees, Scepticism, Slender, Wrong

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Degree, Detestable, Drug, Majority, Oppression, War

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.

Book, Civilization, Flower, Flowers, Wonderful

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

Bank, Cities, Occasion, Political, Politics, Seats

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