Quotes by William E. Gladstone - Page 1

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.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Love
Life
Peace
Time
Our World
World
Will
Love Time Power
Then
Blessings
Love Time Peace
Look
Forward
Replace
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Legal
Delayed
Denied
Fairness
Justice
Law
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Argument
Example
Thousand
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To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Armenia
Civilization
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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Commerce
Equalizer
Wealth
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Curse
Human Race
Race
Selfish
Selfishness
Greatest
Human
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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Civilization
Exhausted
Resources
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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Future
Time
Fighting
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Inspirational
Peace
Politics
Nothing
Wrong
Nothing Wrong Right
Morally
Morally Wrong
Politically
Right
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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Future
Against
Side
Cannot
Future Time Fight
Fight
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Culture
Diversity
Justice
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He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
History
Figures
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Easier
Harder
Law
Lawyer
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Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Men
Knowing
Study
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It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Reticence
Volumes
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Class
Political
World
Against
All The World
Classes
Masses
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Success
Great Mistakes
Mistake
Mistakes
Except
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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Avarice
Dominion
Passion
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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Decision
Gas
Majority
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Government
Home
Foreign Policy
Policy
Principles
Foreign
Good Government
Principle
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No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Great Mistakes
Good Great Man
Mistakes
Became
Except
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
History
Sin
Warning
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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Guarantees
Scepticism
Slender
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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
War
Drink
Pestilence
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It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Members
Teeth
Use
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Government
Difficult
Duty
Easy
People
Government People Duty
Wrong
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Men
Country
Swimming
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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Divine Revelation
Mind
World
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Happiness
Happy
Inspirational
Generous
Hunting
Be Happy
Both
Happiness Happy Be Happy
Hunt
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The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
History
Errors
Order
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Men
Association
Virtuous Woman
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Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Dream
Sanguine
Time Management
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Trust
Fear
Politics
Conservatism
Distrust
Liberalism
People
Prudence
Tempered
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Conscience
Country
Disease
Evil
Physicians
Practice
Beyond
Countries
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Conservative
Liberty
Revolution
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I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Men
Bible
Followers
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
British
Constitution
Parliament
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Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Ignorance
May
Remember
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The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Economy
Ideas
Income
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
War
Drug
Majority
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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Men
Giving
Oxford
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A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Excess
May
Rivals
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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
History
Consequence
Cruelty
Foe
Ireland
Stupidity
Years
Bound
Friend
Her
Lose
Rather
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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.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Cheer
Coffee And Tea
Tea Drinking
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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.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Men
Argument
Chill
Logic
Math
Mind
Mistake
Relentless
Scrutiny
Touch
Apt
Feeling
Heated
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I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Politics
Cities
Political
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Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Class
Kingdoms
Roots
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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.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Book
Rooms
Welcome
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Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Inspirational
Motivational
Uplifting
Mean
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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.
William E. Gladstone / Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Mediocrity
Poet
Prose
Successful
Above
Rise
Among
Commonly
Writers
Exceptions
Fatal
Rarest
Sensibly
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