William Gladstone

"You cannot invent a better system than self government, but you can fall into something much worse."

"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world."

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

"Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling."

"The proper condition for the growth of freedom is not in a small country, but in a larger one."

"We are bound by the moral and political obligation to leave our country as good or better than we found it."

"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."

"The sanctity of life in the womb can never be destroyed without a serious wound being inflicted on the moral consciousness of the people."

"Liberality must be attributed, I think, to the general, not to the particular."

"I have always regarded the theatre as the handmaid of education."

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."

"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the rights of the savage are the birth rights of human nature."

"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people."

"You cannot freely choose your external circumstances, but you can always choose how you respond to them."

"The growth of knowledge depends entirely on its diffusion."

"The very hinge of history is on small acts done by ordinary people."

"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."

"The habit of reading is the only one I would not wish to lose."

"It is indeed impossible to separate the peace of a nation from its morality."

"What we want is to see the character of gentleness associated everywhere with knowledge."

"The very corner-stone of our whole system rests upon the people's right to know."

"I venture to say that the American Revolution was the English Revolution."

"Render up, I beseech you, that which is not yours to keep."

"All the world is becoming Americanized, but I do not believe that this is a very bad thing."

"The sanctity of human life is the foundation of all morality."

"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with help of others."

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

"Men are not bound by the laws of nature only, but by laws of reason also."

"The first principle of true brotherhood is respetuousness."

"We are all created for a use, for a purpose."