“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech in the Constituent Assembly of India (14 August 1947)

About Jawaharlal Nehru

1889 – 1964

First Prime Minister of independent India.

“The past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.”

“Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.”

“The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.”

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”

“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”

“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”