My fast is a matter between God and myself.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.