"I was born in the East Indies, once the cradle of poetry, philosophy and history and now their tomb. I belong to that…"

"To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanica…"

"The most powerful instruments of civilization are two - the Christian religion, and education."

"Cholera and the Thug were born in the same country and in the same year. India is their native land."

"We do not have monarchies by divine right, we do not lack influential and wealthy clergy, we do not want rich familie…"

"What use is equality in theory and in law, if it does not penetrate into our customs?"

"Gambling is the contraction of all vices into one."

"All impartial men who are moved by justice and not by racialism want India to be ruled by Indians."

"It is said that the law of Christ governs European civilization. That is a lie. It shines on it's surface, but does n…"

"It is necessary that the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, eternal in their duration, be universal in t…"