Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Quote by William E Gladstone

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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 one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

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

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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

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...

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What...

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What...

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...