George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Quote

We are ordained to walk here in the same track together for many a long day to come. You cannot do without us. We should be impotent without you. Let the Englishman and the Indian accept the consecration of a union that is so mysterious as to have in it something of the divine, and let our common ideal be a united country and a happier people.


Speech as the Chancellor of the Calcutta University in Calcutta (15 February 1902), quoted in Lord Curzon in India, Being A Selection from His Speeches as Viceroy & Governor-General of India 1898-1905 (London: Macmillan, 1906), p. 489.


We are ordained to walk here in the same track together for many a long day to come. You cannot do without us. We should be impotent without you. Let ...

We are ordained to walk here in the same track together for many a long day to come. You cannot do without us. We should be impotent without you. Let ...

We are ordained to walk here in the same track together for many a long day to come. You cannot do without us. We should be impotent without you. Let ...

We are ordained to walk here in the same track together for many a long day to come. You cannot do without us. We should be impotent without you. Let ...