"Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love."
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"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."
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"Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love."
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"He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart."
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"I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil."
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"Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him."
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"If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief."
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"Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn."
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"Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day."
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"It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God."
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"The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without."
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"Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more."
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""All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense."
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"Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence."
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"The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it."
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"Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence."
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"A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character."
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"History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history."
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"When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence"
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"In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy."
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