FAMOUS STATEMENTS

Famous Statement

  n Lord Dufferin : Congress was a microscopic minority.

n Lord Curzon :  Congress was ‘tottering to its fall’ and one of his greatest ambition in India was ‘‘to

assist it (congress) a peaceful demise’.

n Charles Napier: ‘We have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so and a very advantageous, useful

humane piece of rascality it will be ’’.

n Thomas Roe : ‘‘I know these people are best treated with the sword in one hand and the caducean in the other.’’

n Nabin Chandra Sen : ‘‘The battle of Plassey was followed by a night of eternal gloom for India’’.

n John Sullivan : ‘Our system acts very much like a sponge drawing up all the good things from the

banks of the Ganges and Squeezing them down on the banks Thames’.

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n Tipu Sultan - ‘Better to die like a Soldier, than to live a miserable dependent on the infidels in the

list of their pensioned Rajas and nobles.

n Peter the Great of Russia ‘‘Bear in mind that  the commerce of India is the commerce of the world’’.

n Cornwallis- ‘‘Every native of Hindustan is corrupt’’.

n William Bentinck : ‘‘The misery hardly find a parallel in history of commerce, the bones of the cotton weavers were bleaching the plains of India’’.

n Rani of Jhansi - ‘‘With our own hands we shall not let our Azadshahi burry’’.

n J.L. Nehru : ‘‘British power became the guardian and upholder of many and evil custom and practice which it other wise condemned.’’

n Cornwallis : ‘‘One third of Bengal has been transformed into a jungle inhabitated only by wild beats’’

n A.O. Hume - ‘‘A safety valve for the escape of great and growing forces generated by our action was urgently needed’’.

n Dada Bhai Naroji : Regarding law and orders ‘‘pray strike on the back but dont strike on the belly’’.

n Dufferin : Branded the national leaders as ‘‘Disloyal Babus’ ‘‘Seditious Brahmins’ and ‘‘Violent Villains’.

n Swami Vivekananda ‘‘For our own motherland a junction of the two great system - Hinduism and

Islam is the only hope.

n Swami Vivekananda ‘‘We  are just  don’t touchists Our religion is our kitchen, our god is the cooking and our religion is don’t touch me, I am holy. If this goes on for a century, everyone of us will be in a lunatic asylum.

n Aurobindo Ghosh : - ‘‘Political freedom is the life breath of a nation’’.

n Tilak : ‘‘Swaraj is my birth right and I will have it.

n Gandhiji on the eve of Dandi March ‘‘Sedition has become my religion’’.

n Ram Krishna Paramahamsa ‘‘ God is of no use to the hungry belly’

n Swami Vivekananda: ‘‘Christianity wins its prosperity by cutting the throats of its fellowmen.”