Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.