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William E. Gladstone, a British statesman and Prime Minister, was a towering figure in 19th-century politics. His four terms as Prime Minister saw significant social and political reforms, including the extension of voting rights and Irish home rule. Gladstone's eloquence and commitment to liberal principles left an indelible mark on British history and governance.
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
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"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would."
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"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."
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"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
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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."
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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."
"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."