Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.