William E. Gladstone Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.”

“No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.”

“It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.”

“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.”

“The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.”

“It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.”

“Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.”

“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.”

“You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.”

“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.”