Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.


Letter to his brother Robertson of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool (1859), as quoted in Gladstone as Financier and Economist (1931) by F. W. Hirst, p. 241

William Ewart Gladstone Quotes

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation...

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation...

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation...

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation...