The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.