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Disraeli on Gladstone

Disraeli on Gladstone. “…that unprincipled maniac Gladstone – extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition.” He said GOM (Grand Old Man) should be read as God’s Only Mistake. Gladstone on Disraeli.

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Disraeli on Gladstone

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  1. Disraeli on Gladstone “…that unprincipled maniac Gladstone – extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition.” He said GOM (Grand Old Man) should be read as God’s Only Mistake

  2. Gladstone on Disraeli “the Tory Party had principles by which it would and did stand for, bad and for good. All this Dizzy destroyed.” Gladstone and Disraeli depicted as rival authors by Tenniel - Punch, May 14th 1870.

  3. Gladstone on Disraeli "As Disraeli lived, so he died — all display, without reality or genuineness."

  4. Comparison of Gladstone and Churchill

  5. Gladstone’s 1874 Defeat 1874 -“…borne down in a torrent of gin and beer” • Gladstone His Cabinet resembles “a row of exhausted volcanoes” - Disraeli

  6. 1876: “Bulgarian Horrors and The Question of the East”

  7. “Let the Turks now carry away their abuses, in the only possible manner, namely, by carrying off themselves. Their Zaptiehs and their Mudirs, their Bimbashis and Yuzbashis, their Kaimakams and their Pashas, one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province that they have desolated and profaned. This thorough riddance, this most blessed deliverance, is the only reparation we can make to those heaps and heaps of dead, the violated purity alike of matron and of maiden and of child; to the civilization which has been affronted and shamed; to the laws of God, or, if you like, of Allah to the moral sense of mankind at large…”

  8. “…That such things should be done once is a damning disgrace to the portion of our race which did them; that the door should be left open to their ever so barely possible repetition would spread that shame over the world!” - W.E.Gladstone.

  9. The Midlothian Campaign

  10. 1879 – 30 substantial speeches Audiences of 87,000 Doctrine of “Equal rights Of all nations.”

  11. The G.O.M. became the M.O.G. – Murderer of Gordon, at Khartoum.

  12. Home Rule In Ireland “We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.”

  13. 1894 - Home Rule Accepted by The Commons – Defeated by The Lords Commons majority of 43 but defeated in the Lords, 419 votes to 43

  14. Mission to Pacify Ireland Would Have To Wait For 100 Years

  15. Freedom of the City: St.George’s Hall -1892

  16. Freedom of the City of Liverpool 1892

  17. Last Public Speech: Liverpool 1896, Hengler’s Circus, Low Hill. “the powers of language hardly suffice to describe what has been and is being done, and exaggeration, if we were ever so much disposed to it, is in such a case really beyond our power.”

  18. “We are not dealing with a common and ordinary question of abuses of government. We are dealing with something that goes far deeper…..four awful words – plunder, murder, rape, and torture.”

  19. “horribly accumulated outrages” “this is no crusade against Mohammedanism”; whatever faith had been held by the Armenians, “it would have been incumbent upon us with the same force and the same sacredness” to speak out on their behalf.

  20. "Translate the acts of the Sultan into words and they become these, 'I have tried your patience in distant places; I will try it under your own eyes. I have desolated my provinces; I will now desolate my capital. I have found that your sensitiveness has not been effectually provoked by all that I have heretofore done; I will come nearer to you and see whether ... I shall or shall not wake the wrath which has slept so long." Sultan Abdul Hamid II

  21. No room for neutrality in condemning crimes against humanity… Crimes… “which have already come to such a magnitude and to such a depth of atrocity that they constitute the most terrible, most monstrous series of proceedings that have ever been recorded in the dismal and deplorable history of human crime.”

  22. “who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” -Hitler

  23. Would Hitler have believed he could act with impunity?

  24. Contemporary forms of tyranny and oppression Darfur Burma A prison camp in North Korea

  25. Ascension Day, May 19th, 1898, Gladstone dies. Two years later Catherine was laid by his side.

  26. “We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” “You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.”

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