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.
success mistake great-mistakes
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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.
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.
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.
cities political politics
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
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.
party thinking people
I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people , only qualified by fear ; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence .
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 .