The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.