William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Here am I who have written on all sorts of subjects calculated to excite hostility, moral, political, and religious, and yet I have no enemies - except, indeed…

If done for the right reasons, liberating a country from a despot, I don't see how that's immoral. Ah, done quickly, and then we all leave, yeah that's kind of…