Frases de William Gladstone

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Original: «I mean this, that together with the so-called increase of expenditure there grows up what may be termed a spirit which, insensibly and unconsciously perhaps, but really, affects the spirit of the people, the spirit of parliament, the spirit of the public departments, and perhaps even the spirit of those whose duty it is to submit the estimates to parliament».
Fuente: Discurso en la Cámara de los Comunes del 16 de abril de 1863.

Original: «We may have our own opinions about slavery; 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 making, it appears, a Navy; and they have made what is more than either — they have made a Nation... We may anticipate with certainty the success of the Southern States so far as regards their separation from the North. I cannot but believe that that event is as certain as any event yet and contingent can be».
Fuente: The Case of the United States, to be Laid Before the Tribunal of Arbitration: To be Convened at Geneva Under the Provisions of the Treaty Between the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, Concluded at Washington, May 8, 1871. Autores United States, John Chandler Bancroft Davis. Colaborador Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Editorial U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872. Procedencia del original: Universidad de California. Digitalizado: 12 marzo 2009. p. 41.
Fuente: Discurso sobre la Guerra Civil Americana, Ayuntamiento, Newcastle upon Tyne (7 de octubre de 1862).

Fuente: Manso Coronado, Francisco J. Diccionario enciclopédico de estrategia empresarial. Edición ilustrada. Ediciones Díaz de Santos, 2003. ISBN 9788479785659, p. 222.

Original: «I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards».
Fuente: Citado en Hirst, Francis Wrigley. Gladstone as Financier and Economist. Editorial E. Benn limited, 1931, p. 241.
Fuente: Carta a su esposa de 14 de enero de 1860.

Fuente: Escandón, Rafael, Escandón, Ralph. Frases célebres para toda ocasión. Editorial Diana, 1982. ISBN 978-96-8131-285-5, p. 68.

Original: «Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place».
Fuente: Citado en Hirst, Francis Wrigley. Gladstone as Financier and Economist. Editorial E. Benn limited, 1931. p. 241.
Fuente: Carta de 1859 a su hermano Robertson que presidía la Asociación de Reforma Financiera en Liverpool.

Original: «Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas».
Fuente: Chatturvedi, J. C. (editor). Political Governance: Political theory. Editorial Gyan Publishing House, 2005. ISBN 9788182053175, p. 137.
Fuente: Discurso ante la Cámara de los Comunes en 1858.

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1859/jul/21/financial-policy-of-the-late-government in the House of Commons (21 July 1859) against Benjamin Disraeli's Budget.
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A letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the state prosecutions of the Neapolitan government (7 April 1851), p. 9.
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Letter to H. C. E. Childers (3 April 1873)
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Speech in Nottingham (18 October 1887), quoted in The Times (19 October 1887), p. 6.
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An Examination of the official reply of the Neapolitan Government (London: John Murray, 1952), p. 50.
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Speech in London (11 December 1891), quoted in The Times (12 December 1891), p. 7.
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Speech at Manchester (12 October 1853), quoted in The Times (13 October 1853), p. 7.
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Often attributed to Gladstone. During the debate on the budget of 1867, Laing quoted Lord Sydenham's use http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1832/feb/06/finance-deficiency-in-the-revenue of the phrase in 1832 to Gladstone, with Gladstone replying http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1867/apr/04/ways-and-means-tue-financial-statement: "...when you talk of the "fructification" of money — I accept the term, which is originally due to very high authority — for the public advantage, there is none much more direct and more complete than that which the public derives from money applied to the reduction of debt." The phrase itself occurs earlier, among others:
...ought we to appropriate in the present circumstances of the country 3 millions of money out of the resources and productive capital of the nation, to create an addition to the treasury of the state? Ought we to reduce our public debt by a sacrifice of the funds that maintained national industry? Ought we to deprive the people of 3 millions of capital, which would fructify in their hands much more than in those of government, to pay a portion of our debt?
The Marquis of Lansdowne (21 June, 1819) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1819/jun/21/cash-payments-bill
He put it to his hon. friend the member for Taunton, whether for the sake of increasing the fictitious value of stock, the grinding taxation which encroached on the capital that formed the foundation of credit, ought to be endured? He put it to his powerful mind, whether it would not be better to leave in the pockets of the people what increased and fructified with them, than, by taking all away, to ruin them and annihilate the revenue?
Lord Milton (14 June, 1821) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1821/jun/14/agricultural-horse-tax
The right hon. gentleman had urged, as one 331 objection to the application of the surplus of five millions as a sinking fund, that it was taking that sum from the people, which would fructify to the national advantage, in their pockets, much more than in the reduction of the debt.
William Huskisson (28 February, 1823) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1823/feb/28/reduction-of-taxation
It was one of the great errors of Mr. Pitt's system, that the people should be taxed to buy up a debt standing at four or five per cent interest, when it was clear that that money, if left to fructify in the pockets of the people, would be productive of infinitely more benefit to the country.
Lord Milton (1 June, 1827) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1827/jun/01/the-budget
Misattributed

Speech in Cheshire (23 September 1889) on the London dock strike, quoted in The Times (24 September 1889), p. 10.
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Speech in Edinburgh (29 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 152.
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Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1886/jun/07/second-reading-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (7 June 1886) introducing the Home Rule Bill
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Fuente: Speech in Cheshire (23 September 1889) on the London dock strike, quoted in The Times (24 September 1889), p. 10.

Speech in Liverpool (28 June 1886), quoted in The Times (29 June 1886), p. 11.
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Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in The Times (28 November 1878), p. 10. The Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had proclaimed his policy as "Imperium et Libertas".
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Speech, Plumstead (30 November 1878)
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Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1893/sep/01/the-unemployed#S4V0016P0_18930901_HOC_190 in the House of Commons (1 September 1893) in answer to a question from Howard Vincent MP who asked Gladstone "if the Government propose to take any steps to mitigate the consequences to the masses of the people" of unemployment.
1890s

Speech in Newcastle (2 October 1891), quoted in A. W. Hutton and H. J. Cohen (eds.), The Speeches of The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Home Rule, Criminal Law, Welsh and Irish Nationality, National Debt and the Queen's Reign. 1888–1891 (London: Methuen, 1902), p. 386.
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Letter to Lord Southesk (27 October 1885)
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Cheers.
Speech at Blackheath (28 October 1871), quoted in The Times (30 October 1871), p. 3.
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Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East. (1876)
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Letter to James Bryce (5 December 1896), quoted in Andrew Marrison (ed.), Free Trade and its Reception 1815-1960: Freedom and Trade: Volume One (London: Routledge, 2002), p. 209.
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Letter to Daniel Jones, an unemployed collier who complained of unemployment and of low wages (20 October 1869) as quoted in The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-ministerial Correspondence: 1869-June 1871 Vol. 7 (1982) by H. C. G. Matthew, p. lxxiv
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A letter from 1 May, 1896, Hawarden, as cited in: [Mesrovb Jacob Seth, Armenians in India, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Work of Original Research, https://books.google.com/books?id=BlreO8bmK30C&pg=PA91, 1937, Asian Educational Services, 978-81-206-0812-2, 91–]
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Speech in Edinburgh (25 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 37.
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Speech at the opening of the Reading and Recreation Rooms erected by the Saltney Literary Institute at Saltney in Chesire (26 October 1889), as quoted in "Mr. Gladstone On The Working Classes" in The Times (28 October 1889), p. 8
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Speech to the electors of South Lancashire. (18 July 1865)
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Speech in Leigh, Lancashire (20 October 1868), quoted in The Times (21 October 1868), p. 11.
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Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), pp. 116-117.
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