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

— William Ewart Gladstone

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  1. 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 th…
  2. You should avoid needless and entangling engagements. You may boast about them, you may brag about them, you may say you are procuring cons…
  3. The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
  4. 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 …
  5. National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
  6. The Chancellor of the Exchequer should boldly uphold economy in detail; and it is the mark of a chicken-hearted Chancellor when he shrinks …
  7. As the British Constitution is the most subtile organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, s…
  8. As he [Disraeli] lived, so he died - all display, without reality or genuineness.

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  • policy
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  • diplomacy
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  • foreign policy

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