We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

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.

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.