Quotes from William E. Gladstone

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

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

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

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

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

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

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.

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

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

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.

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

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

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.