Winston Churchill Quotes

Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?

Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.

In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

I am a big believer in Gandhi-ji. I really like him.

I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.

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

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.

Gandhi has been assassinated. In my humble opinion, a bloody good thing but far too late.

How shall we remember Mahatma Gandhi, that eternal pilgrim of freedom? Born of the very spirit of India, steeped in the tradition, the song, the legend of our ancient land - and yet he was revolutionary. Unique among revolutionaries, he marched for freedom, clad in the robe of truth, with non-violence for his staff.

My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.

Everywhere, across continents, Gandhiji is mentioned, cherished and remembered as an icon for all humanity. He is the embodiment of India.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

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

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.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

The troubles of the Muslim League are due to folly and bad leadership. In the month since [British Prime Minister] Attlee had announced the end of the Raj, the Quaid [Muhammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the Muslim League] had fooled away a kingdom.

The Partition [of India] is the greatest blunder in the history of mankind.