More from William Ewart Gladstone

  1. I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is m…
  2. The only means which have been placed in my power of 'raising the wages of colliers' has been by endeavouring to beat down all those restri…
  3. But how is the spirit of expenditure to be exorcised? Not by preaching; I doubt if even by yours. I seriously doubt whether it will ever gi…
  4. I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the w…
  5. I mean this, that together with the so-called increase of expenditure there grows up what may be termed a spirit which, insensibly and unco…
  6. The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.
  7. We may be for or against the South. But there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an Army; they are m…
  8. ...I am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion,-if any…

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