Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Quotes
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The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.
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Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
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Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.
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Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
- Born: February 18, 1854
- Died: March 6, 1930
- Occupation: British statesman