The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century