Poems List

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

speech, House of Commons, 15 June 1874

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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872, in The Times 4 April 1872

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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

speech, House of Commons, 11 March 1873

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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. of the Treasury Bench

speech at Manchester, 3 April 1872

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Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.

speech at Edinburgh, 29 October 1867, in The Times 30 October 1867

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Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864

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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

speech, House of Commons, 1 May 1865

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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

speech, House of Commons, 17 March 1845

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Justice is truth in action.

speech, House of Commons, 11 February 1851

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Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.

maiden speech in the House of Commons, 7 December 1837

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