Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.
Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Be the change you want to see.
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
Build what you want to see in the world.
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.
We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
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