William E. Gladstone Quotes

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

William E. Gladstone

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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
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Mistake

• The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • History
  • Errors
  • Instruction

• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Country
  • Greek
  • Torture

• To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Guarantees
  • Engaged
  • Opposing

• I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Certain
  • Advantage
  • Accounts

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

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Management
  • Profit
  • Thrift

• 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.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Mankind

• 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.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Election

• A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Constitution
  • Rational
  • Irrational

• The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Civilization
  • Resources
  • Exhausted

• Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Wealth
  • Nations
  • Commerce

• Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Storm

• [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Constitution
  • British
  • Parliament

• Justice delayed is justice denied.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Fairness

• Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Men
  • Country
  • Sin

• 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
  • War
  • Drug
  • Oppression

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

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Members
  • Honorable
  • Shakes

• The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • War
  • Drink
  • Greater

• It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Death
  • Science
  • Action

• To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Civilization
  • Armenia

• 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.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Government
  • Faces
  • Office

• 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
  • Cold
  • Calm
  • Excited

• 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
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Antagonist

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

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Passion
  • Avarice
  • Dominion