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Mahatma Gandhi argues that a nation should not be defined by military power but by truth, cooperation, and education. He warns against blind imitation and superstition, urging people to read the country's mind and promote progress through honest effort and collaboration.

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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

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Well, India is a country of nonsense

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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

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A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being…

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Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

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I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

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A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never…

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I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could…

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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely…

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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined…

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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their…

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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of…

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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the…

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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the…

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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

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In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against…

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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the…

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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

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God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

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My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

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Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

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I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

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When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the…

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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country…

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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi…

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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is…

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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so…

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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

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It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among…

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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but…

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.