William E. Gladstone Quotes
… that remarkable body, the most remarkable of all the inventions of modern politics.
The Preface to the above citation is the only reference to this quotation that we have been able to find. No one has been able to find it in the works of Gladstone. Some suspect its validity. However Haynes work is very well respected and others argue that he would not just create a quotation out of whole cloth.
William E. Gladstone, 1809-1898, British Prime Minister (Liberal), Characterization of the United States Senate, Quoted in George H. Haynes, The Senate of the United States, Its History and Practice
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At the time Democracy as a form of government meant citizens voting for their own laws—not their representatives. Today we call that “Direct Democracy” as in a New England Town Meeting.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
the power a ruler or a ruling class
Ironically three decades later Wilson got tangled up with Congress over the League of Nations. He had forgotten what he had written about how Congress having supremacy over the Presidency.
The absurdity was that Adolf Hitler had more unilateral power and authority than and king did in the 20th century.
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, serving over 12 years.
