India is an ancient nation and not a nation in the making. We are not to build a new nation but to make this ancient nation virile to face the challenge of modern times.

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Life is like the journey of a sailing ship. If it weren’t for small turbulences, the ship would never realize its true potential. I hope the challenges of each day make you a stronger person. Good morning.
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Tonight, you will want to feel accomplished. So, rise now and bravely enter the challenges of the day.
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Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
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Let no one challenge India’s secularism.
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Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation’s S&T strategy.
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We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.
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We, the Indians, as Guru of the Nations: yes, I believe in that.
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I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong, and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
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We have given up office, but not our responsibility to serve the nation. We have lost an election, but not our determination.
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India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong – in every sense of the term.
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The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
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People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
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Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism.
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Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.
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I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
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If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.
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I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.
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Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.