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Quotes by William E. Gladstone

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
– William E. Gladstone
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
– William E. Gladstone
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
– William E. Gladstone
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
– William E. Gladstone
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
– William E. 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.
– William E. Gladstone
It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
– William E. Gladstone
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
– William E. Gladstone
Justice delayed is justice denied.
– William E. Gladstone
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
– William E. 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.
– William E. Gladstone
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
– William E. Gladstone
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
– William E. Gladstone
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
– William E. Gladstone
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
– William E. Gladstone
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
– William E. Gladstone
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
– William E. Gladstone