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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Great causes and little men go ill together.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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World War II and Quit India
When World war II started Viceroy Linlithgow had unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of the Britain without consulting the elected Indian representatives. [they] provided Nehru the initial impulse for [his] long intellectual quest which culminated. He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India respectively.

Chiefly he oversaw India's transition from a monarchy to a republic while nurturing a plural multi-party democracy. As Prime Minister Nehru set out to realise his vision of India. Nehru was elected by the Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister although the question of leadership had been settled as far back in 1941 when Gandhi acknowledged Nehru as his political heir and successor.

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