The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

I saw that nations like individuals could only be made through the agony of the Cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself.

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.