I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.


Speech at the opening of the Palmerston Club, Oxford (December 1878) as quoted in "Gladstone's Conundrums; The Statesman Answers Sundry Interesting Questions" in The New York Times (9 February 1879)

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I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of...

I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of...

I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of...

I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of...