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

Quote by William E Gladstone

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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

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

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

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

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

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

This is the negation of God erected into a system of government.

This is the negation of God erected into a system of government.

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.

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

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

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

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

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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