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.
More Quotes from William E. Gladstone:
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.William E. Gladstone
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
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
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.
William E. Gladstone
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Desire Quotes, Liberty & Freedom Quotes, Loyalty QuotesBased on Keywords: firmest, isle, visionary
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
John Cleese
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
Martha Gellhorn
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
Tim Berners-Lee