“No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.”
Settle the Question Right. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AHQ2617.0001.001/20?rgn=full+text;view=image <br class="br">Poetry quotes, Poems of Pleasure (1900)
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“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)
“What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.”
Mehmed Talat (1874–1921) Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and Minister of the Interior
After the German Ambassador persistently brought up the Armenian question in 1918. Quoted in The History of the Armenian Genocide (2003) by Vahakn N. Dadrian, p. 211
“Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
Southey's Colloquies on Society (1830)
William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
"Adequate Machinery for Judicial Business," Journal of the American Bar Association, vol. 7, p. 454 (September 1921).
“The only question on which we did not agree has been settled, and the Lord has decided against me.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
To Marsena Patrick, as quoted in "Honoring Lee Anew" http://wluspectator.com/2014/07/15/cox-honoring-lee-anew/ (15 July 2014), by David Cox, A Magazine of Student Thought and Opinion <br class="br">1860s
Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist
Introduction, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979).
Context: Other areas were being mapped by anthropologists, who seemed to have some interest in my problem, but who were inclined (at that time) to say that what human beings had in common was not in the end very important; that the key to all the mysteries did lie in culture. This seemed to me shallow. It is because our culture is changing so fast, because it does not settle on everything that we need to go into these questions.
