Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.