William E. Gladstone Quotes

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• A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
• Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
• Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds…
• I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled…
• 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…
• The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.
• I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people , only qualified by fear ; but I…
• A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged…
• I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to…
• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the…
• Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it…
• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
• Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
• 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…
• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
• Justice delayed is justice denied.
• Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
• Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
• 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…
• No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

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