A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. — 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 is a… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
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