Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Quotes by William Ewart Gladstone
The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
National injustice is a sure road to national downfall.
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.









