"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
-William E. Gladstone
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"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
-William E. Gladstone
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"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 you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."
-William E. Gladstone
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"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic."
-William E. Gladstone
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"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
-William E. Gladstone
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"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
-William E. Gladstone
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"Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal."
-Jack Abramoff
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"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
-Jack Abramoff
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"Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail."
-Shane Filan
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"Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call."
-Kilari Anand Paul
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"By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties."
-Wilhelm Frick
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"We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds."
-Igor Ivanov
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