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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
— William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
politician, diplomat, statistician, writer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1809 – 1898
William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman and Liberal politician, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party.
In a career lasting more than 60 years, he was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for 12 years, spread over four non-consecutive terms, beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also was Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, for more than 12 years. Gladstone was also Leader of the House of Commons. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 60 years, from 1832 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1895; during that time he represented a total of five constituencies.
All Quotes by William E. Gladstone
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
— William E. Gladstone
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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.
— William E. Gladstone
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
— William E. Gladstone
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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.
— William E. Gladstone
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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
— William E. Gladstone
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William E. Gladstone
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
— William E. Gladstone
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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.
— William E. Gladstone
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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.
— William E. Gladstone
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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.
— William E. Gladstone
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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.
— William E. Gladstone