The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech to the Indian Empire Society, London,12 Dec.

It is only when you get to see and realize what India isöthat she is the strength and the greatness of Englandöthat you feel that every nerve a man may strain, every energy he may put forward, cannot be devoted to a nobler purpose than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  Speech at Southport,15 May.

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  Farewell speech on departing from Bombay as Viceroy of India.

Nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes itto disappearor tomerge insomething else.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  A Passage to India, ch.8.

The price that the market sets on the services of our resources is similarlyaffected bya bewildering mixture of chance and choice. Frank Sinatra's voice was highly valued intwentieth-century United States.Would it have been highly valued in twentieth-century India, if he had happened to be born and to live there?

-Friedman, Milton
Free to Choose (with Rose Friedman).

From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their coral strand.

-Heber, Reginald
  Quoted in the Christian Observer, Feb1823.

One does not own to the possession of money in India.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
Kim, ch.11.

A broken head in Cold Bath Fields produces a greater sensation among us than three pitched battles in India.

-1st Baron
  House of Commons, 20 Sep.

So far I like India.

-Maillart, Ella Kini
  On crossing the Mintaka Pass at the extreme border of China. Quoted in Peter Fleming News from Tartary (1936).

I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl. 552

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

-Murphy, Dervla
  Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

John Bull has gone to India And all must pay him heed For histories are there to prove That none of another breed Has had a like inheritance, Or sucked such milk as he, And there's no luck about a house If it lacks honesty. The ghost of Roger Casement Is beating on the door.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'The Ghost of Roger Casement', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).