Gopal Krishna Gokhale Quotes

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A taxation so forced as not only to maintain a budgetary equilibrium but to yield as well large, continuous, progressive surpluses –even in years of trials and suffering –is, I submit, against all accepted canons of finance.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale
The work that has so far been done has indeed been of the highest value. The growth during the last 50 years, of a feeling of common nationality, based upon common tradition, common disabilities, and common hopes and aspirations, has been most striking. The fact that we are Indians first, and Hindoos, Mahomedans, Parsees, or Christinas afterwards, is being realized in a steadily increasing measure, and the idea of a united and renovated India, marching onwards to a place among the nations of the world worthy of her great past, is no longer a mere idle dream of a few imaginative minds, but is definitely the accepted creed of those who form the brain of the community-the educated classes of the country.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale
But I venture to submit, my lord, that the consideration which the people of the Western countries receive in consequence of their voting power should be available to us, in matters of finance at any rate, through an intelligent anticipation – to use a phrase of Your Lordship's- of our reasonable wishes on the part of the government.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale
What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale