Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.