Born July 23, 1856, Ratnagiri, India—Died Aug. 1, 1920, Bombay
"Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!"
"The problem is not the lack of resources or capability, but the lack of will.".
"If God is put up with untouchability, I will not call him God.".
"It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free."
"The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it and carries it further back into remote antiquity."
"Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott."
"After all, our Killers are our ...Brothers!!??"
"If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness."
"To be successful, you need family and friends but, to be very successful, you need enemies and competitors."
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