William E. Gladstone
William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstonewas a British Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times, more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister; he resigned for the final time when he was 84 years old...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth29 December 1809
William E. Gladstone quotes about
history figures
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
decision majority gas
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
history warning sin
Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
passion dominion avarice
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
cities government office
From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
law easier harder
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
country practice evil
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
government people easy
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
home government firsts
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
character evil attendance
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
dream time-management profit
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
excess rivals may
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
ignorance may remember
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
selfish race curse
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.