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settle difference by war.... Retrenchment... meant the saving of the resources of the individual from the grasp of the state taxation system. It was held as a general truth that wealth left in the hands of private persons would be more fruitfully used than if used by the state.... had most vigorously attacked sinecures and abuses; it was they who had established free trade which seemed the best guarantee of economic development and it was they who more than any others discouraged expense on armaments, the most wasteful and unproductive of all expenditure.... Reform... had a particular and narrower use as meaning reform of the franchise.... More broadly it meant improvement in the method and art of government and the removal of any restriction or disqualification that fell on any particular class or sect.
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The critical, conscience-searching attitude to foreign and imperial affairs, the willingness to see the right triumph over national sentiment... was sheer idealism, the belief that war was wrong and that in the new world of great inventions and world-wide trade civilised nations should not require to
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said in 1859, "I am for 'Peace, retrenchment, and reform', the watchword of the great Liberal party 30 years ago. Whosoever may abandon the cause I shall never pronounce another Shibboleth, but as long as the old flag floats in the air I shall be found a steadfast soldier in the foremost ranks".
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against what he considered wasteful and extravagant government expenditure in the 1820s caused the word "retrenchment" to be added to "peace and reform". The Whig government of
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It was he who caused the word "retrenchment" to be added to the Radical programme "peace and reform.
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stood for election a platform of "Peace and Reform". The relentless campaign by the Radical MP
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Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform. Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860–1880
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was elected to office on the slogan "Peace, Retrenchment and Reform" in
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in his history of the Liberal Party defined the meaning of the slogan:
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British
Whigs
Radicals
Liberals
R. B. McCallum
Daniel Stuart
George Tierney
Joseph Hume
Earl Grey
1830
William Ewart Gladstone
1880 general election
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1906
John Bright
s:Hume, Joseph (DNB00)
Chisholm, Hugh
"Hume, Joseph" 
Encyclopædia Britannica
A. J. A. Morris
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell- (1836–1908)
Categories
1830 establishments in the United Kingdom
1830s neologisms
1830s quotations
British political phrases (pre-1950)
Slogans
Whigs (British political party)
Radicals (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)

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