William Ewart Gladstone quotes

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. (William Ewart Gladstone)
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Justice delayed is justice denied. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. (William Ewart Gladstone)
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
To serve Armenia is to serve civilization. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
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. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead. I will measure exactly the sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
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. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient, as lighting by gas. (William Ewart Gladstone)
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians? View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
This is the negation of God erected into a system of Government. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone