65 Quotes by William Ewart Gladstone

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

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

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?

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.