Its [communism's] Unfortunate Association With Violence Encourages

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?

Citizenship Consists In The Service Of The Country.

Science And Technology Have Freed Humanity From Many Burdens And Given Us This New Perspective And Great Power. This Power Can Be Used For The Good Of All. If Wisdom Governs Our Actions; But If The World Is Mad Or Foolish, It Can Destroy Itself Just When Great Advances And Triumphs Are Almost Without Its Grasp.

Culture Is The Widening Of The Mind And Of The Spirit. It Is Never A Narrowing Of The Mind Or A Restriction Of The Human Spirit Or The Country's Spirit.

In Order To Understand People, We Have To Understand Their Way Of Life And Approach. If We Wish To Convince Them, We Have To Use Their Language In The Narrow Sense Of The Mind. Something That Goes Even Much Further Than That Is Not The Appeal To Logic And Reason, But Some Kind Of Emotional Awareness Of The Other People.