I will venture to say that upon the one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to lead to a conclusion are truth, justice and humanity-upon these, gentlemen, all the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. (William Ewart Gladstone)

I will venture to say that upon the one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to lead to a conclusion are truth, justice and humanity-upon these, gentlemen, all the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William Ewart Gladstone

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