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’.
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.”
