"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.