74 Quotes by William E. Gladstone

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.