"India will not be a helpless partner..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.”

“An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.”

“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.”

“Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.”

“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”

“It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.”

“The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's MagazineThe ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”

“...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.”

“Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.”