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Jawaharlal Nehru

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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.


— Jawaharlal Nehru


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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.


— 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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