William Gladstone Quotes (8 Quotes)

I would tell them of my own intention to keep my own counsel . . . and I will venture to recommend them, as an old Parliamentary hand, to do the same.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

This, if I understand it, is one of those golden moments of our history, one of those opportunities which may come and may go, but which rarely return.

This is the negation of God erected into a system of government.

The Turks one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.

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.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.