Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Quote by William E Gladstone

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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of...

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the...

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong,...

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong,...

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of...

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of...

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love...

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love...

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

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.

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

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't...

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't...

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

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

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their...

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their...

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people...

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people...

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

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

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

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not...

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not...

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment...

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment...

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.