"It is necessary that the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, eternal in their duration, be universal in their application, that being realized in institutions, law and customs, they spread over the surface of the globe and filter down to it's lowest strata. Only then shall the regeneration of man be accomplished."

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

“The revolt was the sepoy; the revolution would have been the people; the revolt was revenge; the revolution would have been the Idea; the revolt was the cruel Vishnu; the revolution would have been the mild Shiva.”

“His glory and greatness suffer from the wrongs he did his fellow men and from the methods he employed.”

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

“To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage.”

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