William Ewart Gladstone

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

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.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

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

We need much less than we think we need.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

The surest poison is time.

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

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

We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.