74 Quotes by William E. Gladstone

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.