Quote#Wisdom
A very few days are elapsed since our arrival; and yet, if we…
Quote byRobert Clive · 1725–1774
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Select Committee on the East India Company (7 May 1765), quoted in James Mill, The History of British India, Vol. III (1820), pp. 350–351.
English (original)
A very few days are elapsed since our arrival; and yet, if we consider what has already come to our knowledge, we cannot hesitate a moment upon the necessity of assuming the power that is in us of conducting, as a Select Committee, the affairs both civil and military of this settlement. What do we hear of, what do we see, but anarchy, confusion, and, what is worse, an almost general corruption.
— Robert Clive
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