The quotations of

William Ewart Gladstone

British Liberal prime minister

1809–1898

5 quotes, most often on Politics.

I believe the slave trade to be by far the foulest crime that taints the history of mankind in any Christian or pagan country.
Speech in the House of Commons (19 March 1850)
- Slavery
I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.
Speech at the opening of the Palmerston Club, Oxford (December 1878) as quoted in “Gladstone’s Conundrums; The Statesman Answers Sundry Interesting Questions” in The New York Times (9 February 1879)
- Politics
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
Homeric Synchronism: An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer (1876), Introduction
- Morality
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
Speech, Plumstead (30 November 1878) as quoted in Congressional Record, vol. 57, p. 4503
- Justice
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 115.
- Government
- Politics

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