74 Quotes by William E. Gladstone

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

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.

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

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

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

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

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