I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.