When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.