William E. Gladstone

Found 8 thoughts of William E. Gladstone

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

Justice delayed is justice denied.

William E. Gladstone

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William E. Gladstone

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

William E. Gladstone

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

William E. Gladstone

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.

William E. 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.

William E. Gladstone