Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

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

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.