George Curzon

"I believe that the Durbar, more than any event in modern history, showed to the Indian people the path which, under the guidance of Providence, they are treading, taught the Indian Empire its unity, a…"

"If I had done nothing else in India I have written my name here, and the letters are a living joy."

"To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor to the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuse—it is so easy t…"

"We may also, I think, congratulate ourselves on the part that the British Empire has played in this struggle, and on the position which it fills at the close. Among the many miscalculations of the ene…"

"The British people realise that they are fighting for the hegemony of the Empire. If necessary we shall continue the war single-handed."

"We are ordained to walk here in the same track together for many a long day to come. You cannot do without us. We should be impotent without you. Let the Englishman and the Indian accept the consecrat…"

"Powerful empires existed and flourished here while Englishmen were still wandering painted in the woods, and when the British Colonies were wilderness and jungle; and India has left a deeper mark upon…"

"As long as we rule India, we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straight away to a third-rate Power."