4 William Ewart Gladstone Quotes on Character

William Ewart Gladstone quotes on character

20. 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; the firmest foundations for the development of individual character; and the best provision for the happiness of the nation at large.

22. As he [Disraeli] lived, so he died - all display, without reality or genuineness.

42. What you say about Gladstone is most just. What restlessness! What vanity! And what unhappiness must be his! Easy to say he is mad. It looks like it. My theory about him is unchanged: A ceaseless Tartuffe from the beginning. That sort of man does not get mad at 70.

48. If you were to put that man on a moor with nothing on but his shirt, he would become whatever he pleased.