William E. Gladstone Quotes

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• Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Peace, Politics

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• 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, Life, Time

  Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.

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• Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

  William E. Gladstone

  Loyalty, Law, Land

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Trust, Fear, People

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  If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

  William E. Gladstone

  Cheer, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

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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.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mistake, Math, Men

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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.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Success, Mistake, Great Mistakes

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• Justice delayed is justice denied.

  William E. Gladstone

  Law, Justice, Fairness

  Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.

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• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Men, Sorrow

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• National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

  William E. Gladstone

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Speech in Plumstead, London, November 30, 1878.

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• Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

  William E. Gladstone

  Selfish, Race, Curse

  Speech in Hawarden, Wales, May 28, 1890.

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• Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

  William E. Gladstone

  Book, Rooms, Welcome

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• I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

  William E. Gladstone

  Bible, Men, Followers

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• You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

  William E. Gladstone

  Time, Future, Fighting

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• There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

  William E. Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Law, Lawyer, Easier

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• One example is worth a thousand arguments.

  William E. Gladstone

  Example, Argument, Thousand

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• My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mind, Divine Revelation, World

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Government, People, Easy

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Errors, Order, History

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• Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

  William E. Gladstone

  Ignorance, May, Remember

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Home, Government, Principles

  Speech, West Calder, Scotland, November 27, 1879.

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• Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

  William E. Gladstone

  Wealth, Commerce, Equalizer

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