Life Changing Quotes of William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone  (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898), was a British Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times, more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four tim

es.Here i am updating his  worthy Life changing Quotes.

1- A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may  readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

2- Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

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Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

4- We may be for or against the South. But there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an Army; they are making, it appears, a Navy; and they have made what is more than either they have made a Nation ... We may anticipate with certainty the success of the Southern States so far as regards their separation from the North.

5- I am certain , from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

6- I mean this, that together with the so-called increase of expenditure there grows up what may be termed a spirit which, insensibly and unconsciously perhaps, but really, affects the spirit of the people, the spirit of parliament, the spirit of the public departments, and perhaps even the spirit of those whose duty it is to submit the estimates to parliament.

7-  A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right .

8- Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

 9- Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

10- Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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