William E. Gladstone Quotes
A British statesman.
(1809 - 1898)
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
[Commerce]
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Duty is a power that rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will.
[Duty]
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
[Law]
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
[Government]
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How little do politics affect the life, the moral life of a nation. One single good book influences the people a vast deal more.
[Politics]
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Intoxicating drinks have produced evils more deadly, because more continuous, than all those caused to mankind by the great historic scourges of war, famine, and pestilence combined.
[Drunkenness]
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It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
[Justice]
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear.
[Politics]
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Man himself is the crowning wonder of creation; the study of his nature the noblest study the world affords.
[Man]
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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
[Man]
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
[Mediocrity]
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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.
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No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
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Nothing can be hostile to religion which is agreeable to justice.
[Religion]
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
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Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.
[Patriotism]
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