A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.