William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstonewas a British Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times, more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister; he resigned for the final time when he was 84 years old...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth29 December 1809
William E. Gladstone quotes about
inspirational happiness being-happy
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
success mistake great-mistakes
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
wise men brain
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
trust fear people
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
inspirational peace politics
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
mistake math men
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.
excess rivals may
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
dream time-management profit
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
government people easy
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
country practice evil
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
cities government office
From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
civilization exhausted resources
The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
country swimming men
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them.
successful mediocrity poet
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.