William Ewart Gladstone

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

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

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

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.

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.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

It’s hard to have it all. And if you’re compromising through one phase of your journey, you’re not giving it all up, you’re compromising for that phase

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.