Love never claims, it ever gives.
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.