Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.