Gandhi Swaraj Quotes & Sayings

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us. — Mahatma Gandhi

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness. — Mahatma Gandhi

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. — Mahatma Gandhi

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi

It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits. — Mahatma Gandhi

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb. — Mahatma Gandhi

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship. — Mahatma Gandhi

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet. — Mahatma Gandhi

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations. — Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma. — Mahatma Gandhi

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful. — Mahatma Gandhi

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline. — Mahatma Gandhi

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights. — Mahatma Gandhi

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals. — Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? — Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God. — Mahatma Gandhi

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
- Hind Swaraj — Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may. — Mahatma Gandhi

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others. — Mahatma Gandhi

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth. — Mahatma Gandhi

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster. — Mahatma Gandhi

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility. — Mahatma Gandhi

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding. — Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme. — Mahatma Gandhi

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life. — Mahatma Gandhi

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. — Mahatma Gandhi

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will. — Mahatma Gandhi

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year. — Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity. — Mahatma Gandhi

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom. — Mahatma Gandhi

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress. — Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task. — Mahatma Gandhi

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever. — Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen. — Mahatma Gandhi

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi