William E. Gladstone
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.
excess rivals may
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
government people easy
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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.
guarantees slender opposing
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.
teeth use members
It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
clouds political storm
Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.
guarantees excess rivals
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right .