Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.