He ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.

Referring to Mahatma Gandhi in conversation with Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, 1921. Reported in Stephanie Barczewsk, John Eglin, Stephen Heathorn, Michael Silvestri, and Michelle Tusan, Britain Since 1688: A Nation in the World (2014), p. 301; Richard Toye, Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made (2010), p. 172