It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.