There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.