“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”

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

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

I will plant my hands in the garden; I will grow green, I know, I know, I know.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.