“Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.”

Religion, social status, and property are all sources of power and authority which one man has, to control the liberty of another.

Self-respect is the most vital factor in life.

Freedom of mind is the real freedom.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.

The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.

Religion is for man and not man for religion.

To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties.

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society.

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate – namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

The real power belongs to the people.