William E. Gladstone Quotes

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.