I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.