Quotes from William Gladstone

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

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

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

If you weren't such a great man, you'd be a terrible bore.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.