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William E. Gladstone quotes: To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

William E. Gladstone quotes: He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

William E. Gladstone quotes: Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William E. Gladstone quotes: To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

William E. Gladstone quotes: The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

William E. Gladstone quotes: National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

William E. Gladstone quotes: 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.

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

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

William E. Gladstone quotes: You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William E. Gladstone quotes: Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

William E. Gladstone quotes: The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.

William E. Gladstone quotes: A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

William E. Gladstone quotes: The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

William E. Gladstone quotes: [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

William E. Gladstone quotes: Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

William E. Gladstone quotes: The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

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

William E. Gladstone quotes: One example is worth a thousand arguments.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

William E. Gladstone quotes: 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.

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.