Famous quote by Goldwin Smith

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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there"

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This quote is written / told by Goldwin Smith between August 13, 1823 and June 7, 1910. He/she was a famous Historian from Canada. The author also have 28 other quotes.

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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

Euripides, Poet

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness"

"The family is the nucleus of civilization"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos"

"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"