William Ewart Gladstone

Statesman

1809-12-29 – 1898-05-19

William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman and Liberal Party leader who served as Prime Minister four times. He was one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century British politics.

Books by William Ewart Gladstone

The Gladstone diaries
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The Vatican decrees in their bearing on civil allegiance
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Vaticanism
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Quotes by William Ewart Gladstone

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.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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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.
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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.
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It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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The proper function of government is to make it easy for people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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