"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul."

"The greatest revolution in a country is when the people rise up and change their own destiny."

"If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside."

"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance."

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."