The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.