Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.