The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.