A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.