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William E. Gladstone Quotes
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Type: Leader Quotes Category: British Leader Quotes Date of Birth: December 29, 1809 Date of Death: May 19, 1898 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: William E. Gladstone Related Authors: Mohandas Gandhi Martin Luther King, Jr. Napoleon Bonaparte Buddha Charles de Gaulle Mother Teresa Martin Luther Margaret Thatcher |
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 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 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. 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 man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. 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 Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William E. Gladstone The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. 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 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. William E. Gladstone 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 E. Gladstone You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. William E. Gladstone |
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