Freedom At Midnight Quotes

“On 23 June 1757, marching through a drenching rainfall at the head of 900 Englishmen of the 39th Foot and 2000 Indian sepoys, an audacious general named Robert Clive routed the army of a troublesome Nawab in the rice paddies outside a Bengali village called Plassey.”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight

“Bombay that morning of 28 February 1948, Platt and his men had put the final full stop to the British imperial adventure. Twenty-five years later, by that”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight

“Mountbatten was stunned by the rigidity of Jinnah's position. 'I never would have believed,' he later recalled, 'that an intelligent man, well-educated, trained in the Inns of Court, was capable of simply closing his mind”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight

“He was the first and the greatest in a line of Arab, African and Asian leaders who in the decades to come would follow his route from a British prison to a British conference chamber.”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight

“We are a poor nation,' John Maynard Keynes had told his countrymen the year before, 'and we must learn to live accordingly.”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight

“«Traten de proyectarse en el futuro: imaginen lo que serán la India y la Tierra entera dentro de diez años,”
― 1:Dominique Lapierre | Larry Collins | 2:Adolfo Martín, Esta noche, la libertad

“The crowned heads that leaned over his cradle were members of his family. Charlemagne was a direct ancestor; among his uncles and cousins were Kaiser Wilhelm II, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Ferdinand I of Rumania, Gustav VI of Sweden, Constantine I of Greece, Haakon VII of Norway and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Europe's crises were family problems.”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight

“Gandhi: "My friend, I'm glad you listened to the voice of God, and not the voice of Gandhi."
Mountbatten: "Well, Gandhiji, his is the only voice I'd sooner listen to than yours, but in what respect did I take God's advice against yours.”
― Larry Collins, Freedom At Midnight

“One blessing, one sire, one womb Their being gave. They had one mortal sickness And share one grave Far from an England they never knew.”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight

“Mrs Penn Montague, who spoke six languages, rose every day at four in the afternoon.”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight