Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) Indian independence activist
[Hunt, Frazier, Great Personalities, http://books.google.com/books?id=EgEZRS4xer0C&pg=PT153, 1931, New York Life Insurance Company, 153–]
“The responsibility for progress rests not only on the Government, but on every man and woman in the country. The Government can go no faster in progress than the people will allow them to do. Willing co-operation in new methods is essential, and without the will to work progress is not possible, and with constant stoppages of industry progress is not possible.”
Speech at the Albert Hall (4 December 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 70.
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