William E. Gladstone Quotes

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

The just man walks in his integrity

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

I believe cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically inexpedient, and have therefore always discontinued its use, even from a practical standpoint.

No one may do evil that good may come.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

Civilization depends on morality.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

My moral compass is strong.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

I use the lessons my father taught me every day. And I believe the simple value of integrity matters, even in a complicated place like Congress.