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I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of…
Quote byWilliam Ewart Gladstone · 1809–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Commons on the Women's Disabilities Bill (3 May 1871).
English (original)
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
— William Ewart Gladstone
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