Quotes from William Ewart Gladstone

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.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

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.

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

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

Out of the range of practical politics.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

He is the purest figure in history. -- About George Washington

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

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

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.

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.

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.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

We know quite well that the people of the Northern States have not yet drunk of the cup -- they are still trying to hold it far from their lips -- which all the rest of the world see they nevertheless must drink of. We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made, what is more than either, they have made a nation.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

Upon one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to lead to a conclusion are truth, justice, and humanity, there, gentlemen, all the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

The binding of a book is the dress with which it walks out into the world. The paper, type and ink are the body, in which its soul is domiciled. And these three, soul, body, and habilament, are a triad which ought to be adjusted to one another by the laws of harmony and good sense.

We ought to recollect ... that a book consists, like man, from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul.