“Let us go forward in the good work we have in hand and let us put our trust, not in squires and peers, and not in titles or in acres; I will go further and say, not in man, as such, but in Almighty God, who is the God of justice, and who has ordained the principle of right, of equity, and of freedom to be the guides and the masters of our lives.”

— William Ewart Gladstone

Speech in Edinburgh (30 June 1892), quoted in The Times (1 July 1892), p. 12.
1890s

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