If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

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.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.