War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.