Frases de William Gladstone

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Original: «I mean this, that together with the so-called increase of expenditure there grows up what may be termed a spirit which, insensibly and unconsciously perhaps, but really, affects the spirit of the people, the spirit of parliament, the spirit of the public departments, and perhaps even the spirit of those whose duty it is to submit the estimates to parliament».
Fuente: Discurso en la Cámara de los Comunes del 16 de abril de 1863.

Original: «We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South. But there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an Army; they are making, it appears, a Navy; and they have made what is more than either — they have made a Nation... We may anticipate with certainty the success of the Southern States so far as regards their separation from the North. I cannot but believe that that event is as certain as any event yet and contingent can be».
Fuente: The Case of the United States, to be Laid Before the Tribunal of Arbitration: To be Convened at Geneva Under the Provisions of the Treaty Between the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, Concluded at Washington, May 8, 1871. Autores United States, John Chandler Bancroft Davis. Colaborador Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Editorial U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872. Procedencia del original: Universidad de California. Digitalizado: 12 marzo 2009. p. 41.
Fuente: Discurso sobre la Guerra Civil Americana, Ayuntamiento, Newcastle upon Tyne (7 de octubre de 1862).

Fuente: Manso Coronado, Francisco J. Diccionario enciclopédico de estrategia empresarial. Edición ilustrada. Ediciones Díaz de Santos, 2003. ISBN 9788479785659, p. 222.

Original: «I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards».
Fuente: Citado en Hirst, Francis Wrigley. Gladstone as Financier and Economist. Editorial E. Benn limited, 1931, p. 241.
Fuente: Carta a su esposa de 14 de enero de 1860.

Fuente: Escandón, Rafael, Escandón, Ralph. Frases célebres para toda ocasión. Editorial Diana, 1982. ISBN 978-96-8131-285-5, p. 68.

Original: «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».
Fuente: Citado en Hirst, Francis Wrigley. Gladstone as Financier and Economist. Editorial E. Benn limited, 1931. p. 241.
Fuente: Carta de 1859 a su hermano Robertson que presidía la Asociación de Reforma Financiera en Liverpool.

Original: «Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas».
Fuente: Chatturvedi, J. C. (editor). Political Governance: Political theory. Editorial Gyan Publishing House, 2005. ISBN 9788182053175, p. 137.
Fuente: Discurso ante la Cámara de los Comunes en 1858.

Speech in London (30 June 1888), quoted in The Times (2 July 1888), p. 7.
1880s

Speech to the Eisteddfod in Wrexham (8 September 1888), quoted in A. W. Hutton and H. J. Cohen (eds.), The Speeches of The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Home Rule, Criminal Law, Welsh and Irish Nationality, National Debt and the Queen's Reign. 1888–1891 (London: Methuen, 1902), p. 58.
1880s

Liberal Manifesto (September 1885) http://oll.libertyfund.org/EBooks/Smith_0306.pdf
1880s

'Kin beyond Sea', The North American Review Vol. 127, No. 264 (Sep. - Oct., 1878), p. 180.
1870s

Speech https://archive.org/details/revisedreportofp00poli to the Political Economy Club (31 May 1876) upon the centenary of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
1870s

Speech in Edinburgh (30 June 1892), quoted in The Times (1 July 1892), p. 12.
1890s

Speech to the Liverpool Liberal Association (6 April 1866), quoted in The Times (7 April 1866), p. 9.
1860s

Letter to Sir William Harcourt (3 July 1885), quoted in H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries: Volume 10: January 1881-June 1883 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), p. clxix.
1880s

Of Benjamin Disraeli, in May 1881 to his secretary, Edward Hamilton, regarding Disraeli's instructions to be given a modest funeral. Disraeli was buried in his wife's rural churchyard grave. Gladstone, Prime Minister at the time, had offered a state funeral and a burial in Westminster Abbey. Quoted in chapter 11 of Gladstone: A Biography (1954) by Philip Magnus
1880s

Letter to the Marchese di Rudinì (30 April 1892), quoted in Vilfedo Pareto, Liberté économique et les événements d'Italie (1970), p. 49
1890s

Pamflet The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Exposition (November 1874), quoted in All Roads lead to Rome? The Ecumenical Movement (2004) by Michael de Semlyen.
1870s

Even the economical considerations of materially augmented cost do not appear to be wholly trivial.
Fuente: Liberal Manifesto (September 1885) http://oll.libertyfund.org/EBooks/Smith_0306.pdf

Hence there grew up, what has been rare in the history of the world, a kind of tolerance in the midst of cruelty, tyranny and rapine. Much of Christian life was contemptuously left alone and a race of Greeks was attracted to Constantinople which has all along made up, in some degree, the deficiencies of Turkish Islam in the element of mind!
Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East. (1876)
1870s
Fuente: [Gladstone, William Ewart, Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East, J Murray, London, 1876, http://www.archive.org/details/bulgarianhorrors00gladiala, 31, 2 September 2013]

Quite the contrary. Property is vigilant, active, sleepless; if ever it seems to slumber, be sure that one eye is open.
Fuente: Remarks to John Morley (31 December 1891), quoted in John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. Vol. III (1880-1898) (Macmillan, 1903), p. 469

Speech in Glasgow (5 December 1879), quoted in Michael Balfour, Britain and Joseph Chamberlain (1985), p. 212
1870s

1880s
Fuente: Except from a speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/26/second-reading-adjourned-debate-second in the House of Commons (26 April 1883) in support of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh being permitted to take his seat in Parliament.

Fuente: Except from a speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1883/apr/26/second-reading-adjourned-debate-second in the House of Commons (26 April 1883) in support of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh being permitted to take his seat in Parliament.

'Free Trade, Railways, and the growth of Commerce', The Nineteenth Century, No. XXXVI (February 1880), quoted in The Nineteenth Century, Vol. VII (January–June 1880), p. 377
1880s

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1877/may/07/postponement-of-orders-of-the-day#column_437 in the House of Commons (7 May 1877)
1870s

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1861/apr/15/first-night#column_595 in the House of Commons (15 April 1861)
1860s

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1857/mar/03/resolution-moved-resumed-debate-fourth#column_1802 in the House of Commons against the Second Opium War (3 March 1857)
1850s

Letter to Sir John Cowan (17 March 1894), quoted in The Times (22 March 1894), p. 8
1890s

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1882/apr/24/ways-and-means-financial-statement#column_1298 in the House of Commons (24 April 1882)
1880s

Speech to the Hawarden Amateur Horticultural Society (17 August 1876), as quoted in "Mr. Gladstone On Cottage Gardening", The Times (18 August 1876), p. 9
1870s

Speech in Dundee (29 October 1890), quoted in The Times (30 october 1890), p. 4
1890s

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1889/jul/25/the-royal-grants#S3V0338P0_18890725_HOC_142 in the House of Commons (25 July 1889)
1880s

Speech in Westminster Palace Hotel (23 May 1878), quoted in The Times (24 May 1878), p. 12
1870s

Letter to Welby (26 October 1887), quoted in Anthony Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England 1846–1946 (1997), p. 19
1880s

Letter to the Duke of Argyll (30 September 1885), quoted in John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Volume III (1903), p. 221
1880s