William E. Gladstone Quotes - BrainyQuote

British - Leader December 29, 1809 - May 19, 1898

Justice delayed is justice denied.

William E. Gladstone

Justice Legal Delayed Denied

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

William E. Gladstone

Politics Fear Trust People

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

Strength Chill Mistake Mind

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

William E. Gladstone

Curse Race Selfishness Human

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

Life Happiness God Home

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William E. Gladstone

Happiness Be Happy You Happy

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Good Man Great Mistakes

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

Love Time Peace Power

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

William E. Gladstone

People Government Easy Difficult

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

William E. Gladstone

Good Wrong Right Make

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

William E. Gladstone

Life Three Volumes Reticence

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

Stupidity Lose Friend Than

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

World Back Will Against

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

Freedom Loyalty You Happy

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Great Mistakes Through Many

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William E. Gladstone

Good Home Government Here

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William E. Gladstone

Future Time You Fight

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William E. Gladstone

Nothing Wrong Right Politically

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

William E. Gladstone

Evil Practice Conscience Beyond

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

Dangerous Rise Now Mediocrity

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