William E. Gladstone Quotations

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.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

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

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

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.

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.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.