What that Sicilian mule was to me, I have been to the Queen.
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Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
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England’s foreign policy should always be inspired by the love of freedom. 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 one lays the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
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It is upon those who say that it is necessary to exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working classes [from the vote] to show cause, and I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
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Birth: | 29th December, 1809 |
Death: | 19th May, 1898 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Prime Minister, Statesman |
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