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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

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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.

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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.

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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

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

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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Leader

Born: December 29th, 1809

Died: May 19th, 1898

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