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.