There Is Nothing On Earth

As A Rule I Had A Distaste For Any Reading Beyond My School Books.

Repression Does For A True Man Or A Nation What Fire Does For Gold.

I Do Believe That Where There Is A Choice Between Cowardice And Non-violence I Would Advise Violence. Thus When My Eldest Son Asked Me What He Should Have Done, Had He Been Present When I Was Almost Fatally Assaulted In 1908, Whether He Should Have Run Away And Seen Me Killed Or Whether He Should Have Used His Physical Force Which He Could And Wanted To Use, And Defended Me, I Told Him That It Was His Duty To Defend Me Even By Using Violence.

Nonviolence Is An Unchangeable Creed.

I Cannot Imagine Anything Nobler Or More National Than That For, Say, One Hour In The Day We Should All Do The Labor The Poor Must Do, And Thus Identify Ourselves With Them And Through Them, With All Mankind.