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William E. Gladstone

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William E. Gladstone is one of those voices you encounter and immediately want to hear more from. Whether reflecting on Home or Happiness, William E. Gladstone brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Our collection holds 18 quotes from William E. Gladstone, each offering a different angle on Home, Happiness, Government, Trust, and Time. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”

— William E. Gladstone

Experience

All Quotes by William E. Gladstone

“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 scrutiny of logic.”

— William E. Gladstone

Strength

“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 peace.”

— William E. Gladstone

Peace

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”

— William E. Gladstone

Fear

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”

— William E. Gladstone

Experience

“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.”

— William E. Gladstone

Government

“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”

— William E. Gladstone

Happiness

“Justice delayed is justice denied.”

— William E. Gladstone

Legal

“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”

— William E. Gladstone

Happiness

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

— William E. Gladstone

Government

“You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.”

— William E. Gladstone

Future