William Ewart Gladstone - Country Quotes

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Finance is, as it were, the stomach of the country, from which all the other organs take their tone.

William Ewart Gladstone

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

William Ewart Gladstone

Your business is not to govern the country but it is, if you think fit, to call to account those who do govern it.

William Ewart Gladstone

You should avoid needless and entangling engagements. You may boast about them, you may brag about them, you may say you are procuring consideration of the country. You may say that an Englishman may now hold up his head among the nations. But what does all this come to, gentlemen? It comes to this, that you are increasing your engagements without increasing your strength; and if you increase your engagements without increasing strength, you diminish strength, you abolish strength; you really reduce the empire and do not increase it. You render it less capable of performing its duties; you render it an inheritance less precious to hand on to future generations.

William Ewart Gladstone