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“No one believes more firmly than we do that the safety and welfare of India depend on the permanence of British administration.”

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Letter to Lord Minto (1907), quoted in Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 256.

Dependency

“The miracle of the world…the biggest thing that the English are doing anywhere.”

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

On British rule in India, quoted in Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 256.

World

“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 consecration of a union that is so mysterious as to have in it something of the divine, and let our common ideal be a united country and a happier people.”

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Speech as the Chancellor of the Calcutta University in Calcutta (15 February 1902), quoted in Lord Curzon in India, Being A Selection from His Speeches as Viceroy & Governor-General of India 1898-1905 (London: Macmillan, 1906), p. 489.

People , Country

“Curzon is an intolerable person to do business with—pompous, dictatorial and outrageously conceited…. Really he is an intolerable person, pig-headed, pompous and vindictive too! Yet an able, strong man with it all.”

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Maurice Hankey's diary entry (12 May 1916), quoted in Stephen Roskill, Hankey, Man of Secrets: Volume I 1877-1919 (London: Collins, 1970), pp. 271-272.
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