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!

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.