"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"

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are"

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

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

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

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

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

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

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"