William Ewart Gladstone Quotes

#1. Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William Ewart Gladstone

#2. Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

William Ewart Gladstone

#3. Justice delayed is justice denied

William Ewart Gladstone

#4. Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

William Ewart Gladstone

#5. Failure is success if we learn from it.

William Ewart Gladstone

#6. No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

William Ewart Gladstone

#7. 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 Ewart Gladstone

#8. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William Ewart Gladstone

#9. If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.

William Ewart Gladstone

#10. If you weren't such a great man, you'd be a terrible bore.

William Ewart Gladstone

#11. Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness

William Ewart Gladstone

#12. 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 Ewart Gladstone