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… — 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