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Not who you're looking for? Others named William Ewart Gladstone: British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
“Ireland, Ireland! That cloud in the west! That coming storm! That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions—God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face, and to work through them.”
“Hephaistos bears in Homer the double stamp of a Nature-Power, representing the element of fire, and of an anthropomorphic deity who is the god of art at a period when the only fine art known was in works of metal produced by the aid of fire.”
“I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.”
“I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.”
“I don't object to Gladstone always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but merely to his belief that the Almighty put it there.”
“Ah, Oxford on the surface, but Liverpool below.”
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Portrait of William Ewart Gladstone is an 1879 portrait painting by the British artist John Everett Millais. It depicts the politician William Ewart Gladstone who served as Prime Minister four times. It was one of a series of portraits of leading figures Millais produced during the era, including his Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli featuring Gladstone's political rival. The work was initiated by Millais himself, rather than being commissioned and was then bought for a thousand pounds by the art dealer William Agnew who sold it ten days later to the Duke of Westminster.
