William E. Gladstone Quotes - Page 3

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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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• If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

  William E. Gladstone

  Power, Allies, Germany

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• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Government, Greek

  "Mr. Gladstone and The Balkan Confederation". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, February 6, 1897.

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• Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

  William E. Gladstone

  Decision, Majority, Gas

  Speech in the House of Commons, 1858.

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• The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

  William E. Gladstone

  Civilization, Exhausted, Resources

  Speech on the state of Ireland, at Leeds, 7 October 1881, in Henry W. Lucy (ed.) 'Speeches of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone' (1885) p. 57

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• He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

  William E. Gladstone

  History, Figures

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• To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

  William E. Gladstone

  Civilization, Armenia

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• It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

  William E. Gladstone

  Teeth, Use, Members

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• I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.

  William E. Gladstone

  Design, Effort, Independence

  "In the Golden Days". Book by F. W. Hirst, 1947.

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• Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

  William E. Gladstone

  Important, Taxation, Firsts

  Letter to his brother Robertson of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool in 1859. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by F. W. Hirst, p. 241, 1931.

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• 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.

  William E. Gladstone

  Successful, Mediocrity, Poet

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• From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

  William E. Gladstone

  Government, Cities, Office

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• 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

  Men, Political, Venture

  1864 House of Commons, 11 May.

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• 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.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cities, Political, Politics

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Ideas, Income, Economy

  Letter to H. C. E. Childers, April 03, 1873.

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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.

  William E. Gladstone

  Constitution, Parliament, British

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• Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

  William E. Gladstone

  History, Warning, Sin

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• Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

  William E. Gladstone

  Class, Roots, Kingdoms

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Political, Letters

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• It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

  William E. Gladstone

  Death, Science, Action

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