William Ewart Gladstone Quotes
“We ought to recollect … that a book consists, like man, from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul.”
“The binding of a book is the dress with which it walks out into the world. The paper, type and ink are the body, in which its soul is domiciled. And these three, soul, body, and habilament, are a triad which ought to be adjusted to one another by the laws of harmony and good sense.”
“Upon one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to lead to a conclusion are truth, justice, and humanity, there, gentlemen, all the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.”
“To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.”
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessing of peace.”
“I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.”
“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness”
“We know quite well that the people of the Northern States have not yet drunk of the cup — they are still trying to hold it far from their lips — which all the rest of the world see they nevertheless must drink of. We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made, what is more than either, they have made a nation.”
“If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.”
“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.”
“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.”
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
“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.”
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.”
“Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.”
“Failure is success if we learn from it.”
“Justice delayed is justice denied”
“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.”
“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. ”
“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.”