Quote #39

Who equals him in earnestness? Who equals him in eloquence? Who equals him in courage and fidelity to his convictions? If these gentlemen who say they will not follow him have anyone who is equal, let them show him. If they can point out any statesman who can add dignity and grandeur to the stature of Mr. Gladstone, let them produce him!

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  1. He has - and it is one of the springs of great power - a real faith in the higher parts of human nature; he believes, with all his heart an…
  2. An almost spectral kind of phantasm of a man--nothing in him but forms and ceremonies and outside wrappings.
  3. Ah, Oxford on the surface, but Liverpool below.
  4. He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
  5. He has one gift most dangerous to a spectator, a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import.
  6. What you say about Gladstone is most just. What restlessness! What vanity! And what unhappiness must be his! Easy to say he is mad. It look…
  7. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
  8. If there were no Tories, I am afraid he would invent them.

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