If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.