William Gladstone

"Do not be afraid to be unconventional if that is what truth demands."

"The power of example is greater than the power of precept."

"Human nature is fundamentally good, and that must be the basis of all our institutions."

"The unity of mankind is the goal of all history."

"We must not lose faith in human nature."

"The resources of civilization against its enemies are not exhausted."

"We look forward with anxiety and with hope to the coming age."

"The love of freedom is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

"Succeed as thoroughly as you can in your profession and in your life."

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

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

"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel a responsibility for the lives of those connected with us."

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

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

"You cannot invent on behalf of virtue."

"Historic nations are not to be saved by the desertion of their institutions."

"The principle of my life is to make my life pleasant to myself, but to make it useful to others."

"One stat in the wrong place ruins the whole."

"The sanctity of human life in the hill villages of Afghanistan is as inviolable as in Westminster."

"Liberality must be the servant, not the master, of order."

"If you want to know the real opinion of a man, you must watch his conduct when he thinks no one is looking."

"The heart of a good man dwells with the weak and the afflicted."

"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."

"We have been living, I fear, too contented with slow reforms."

"The very principle of true religion is to lose no opportunity of serving God and man."

"I venture to say that the American war has demonstrated practically the value of the working man."

"Let the Turk now carry away his flag from over Europe, not to Europe but to Asia."

"The great object of my life has been to elevate the condition of man."