American revolution Quote by William E. Gladstone

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

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

— William E. Gladstone

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

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

— William E. Gladstone

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

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

— William E. Gladstone

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

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

— William E. Gladstone

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

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

— William E. Gladstone

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

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

— William E. Gladstone