Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true,… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people , only qualified by fear ; but… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer,… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
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… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share
