
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.