On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
India’s freedom must revolutionize the world’s outlook upon Peace and War.
India’s freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
India’s coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
India’s way is not Europe’s. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman’s virtue as much every man’s concern as his own sister’s?
In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India’s liberty.
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.