William Ewart Gladstone

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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

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.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

No matter how hard the past is, we can always begin again.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.