Be united, persevere, and achieve self-Government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine, and plague may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the greatest and civilized nations of the world.

In 1906 at the age of 80 when he became president of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta. - Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji: "The Grand Old Man of India"