Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

In the midst of death life persists.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.