Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.