Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

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.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.