William E. Gladstone Quotes

It Is Difficult To See Anything But Infatuation In The Destructive Temperament Which Leads To The Action ... That Each Of Us Is To Rejoice That Our Several Units Are To Be Distinguished At Death Into Countless Millions Of Organisms; For Such, It Seems, Is The Latest Revelation Delivered From The Fragile Tripod Of A Modern Delphi.

Letter To The Committee In Charge Of The Celebration Of The Centennial Of The American Constitution. I Have Always Regarded That Constitution As The Most Remarkable Work Known To Me In Modern Times To Have Been Produced By The Human Intellect, At A Single Stroke (so To Speak), In Its Application To Political Affairs.

Budgets Are Not Merely Affairs Of Arithmetic, But In A Thousand Ways Go To The Root Of Prosperity Of Individuals, The Relation Of Classes And The Strength Of Kingdoms.

Is Not That State A Warning And A Judgment For Our Heavy Sins As A Nation?

I Venture On Assuring You That I Regard The Design Formed By You And Your Friends With Sincere Interest, And In Particular Wish Well To All The Efforts You May Make On Behalf Of Individual Freedom And Independence As Opposed To What Is Termed Collectivism.

From The Time I Took Office As Chancellor Of The Exchequer, I Began To Learn That The State Held, In The Face Of The Bank And The City, An Essentially False Position As To Finance. The Government Itself Was Not To Be A Substantive Power, But Was To Leave The Money Power Supreme And Unquestioned.

Decision By Majorities Is As Much An Expedient As Lighting By Gas.

For Works Of The Mind Really Great There Is No Old Age, No Decrepitude. It Is Inconceivable That A Time Should Come When Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Should Not Ring In The Ears Of Civilized Man.

[the British Constitution] Presumes More Boldly Than Any Other The Good Sense And The Good Faith Of Those Who Work It.

Economy Is The First And Great Article (economy Such As I Understand It) In My Financial Creed. The Controversy Between Direct And Indirect Taxation Holds A Minor, Though Important Place.

The Idea Of Abolishing Income Tax Is To Me Highly Attractive, Both On Other Grounds And Because It Tends To Public Economy.

To Serve Armenia Is To Serve Civilization.