Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Quote

He is a dangerous man; keep him in Oxford and he is partially muzzled; but send him elsewhere and he will run wild.

Of Gladstone

c.1865, John Morley Life of Gladstone (1903) vol. 1


He is a dangerous man; keep him in Oxford and he is partially muzzled; but send him elsewhere and he will run wild.

He is a dangerous man; keep him in Oxford and he is partially muzzled; but send him elsewhere and he will run wild.

He is a dangerous man; keep him in Oxford and he is partially muzzled; but send him elsewhere and he will run wild.

He is a dangerous man; keep him in Oxford and he is partially muzzled; but send him elsewhere and he will run wild.