“He ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.”

—  Winston S. Churchill

Referring to Mahatma Gandhi in conversation with Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, 1921.
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Source: Barczewsk, Stephanie, John Eglin, Stephen Heathorn, Michael Silvestri, and Michelle Tusan. Britain Since 1688: A Nation in the World, p. 301
Source: Toye, Richard. Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, p. 172

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