Then his passion for economy, his ceaseless war against public profusion, his insistence upon rigorous keeping of the national accounts—in this great department of affairs he led and did not follow.
Morley commends Gladstone's commitment to fiscal responsibility and his leadership in managing national finances.
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We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
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