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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.

William E. Gladstone

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William E. Gladstone

Happiness

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

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

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

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

William E. Gladstone

Life

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

Will

World

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

Justice delayed is justice denied.

William E. Gladstone

Justice

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

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.

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

William E. Gladstone

Mistakes

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

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

William E. Gladstone

Conscience