To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.