Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

— Manmohan Singh

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Jawaharlal Nehru did a huge amount for education in India.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Bose did not die in 1945. It is wrong. It is a conspiracy of Nehru and the Japanese. Subhash Chandra Bose sought…

— Subramanian Swamy

My entire family has been with the Congress right from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress is in our blood and…

— Sanjay Dutt

Prime ministers with full majority have behaved differently from each other. Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader who ruled by consensus while Indira…

— Sanjaya Baru

“One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.”

— Jack Weatherford

“Jawaharlal Nehru put it sharply: the Indian Civil Service, he said, was ‘neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service’.”

— Shashi Tharoor

I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have given permission that my medals be transferred from the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi to the sports museum in…

— Milkha Singh

India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the…

— Subramanian Swamy

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of…

— Narendra Modi

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the…

— Shashi Tharoor

During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot…

— Pat Buchanan

“Sedition was therefore explicitly intended as an instrument to terrorize Indian nationalists: Mahatma Gandhi was amongst its prominent victims. Seeing it applied…

— Shashi Tharoor

“The country was passing through turbulent times. British Raj was on its last legs. The World War had sucked the juice out…

— Manjit Sachdeva

“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form…

— Shashi Tharoor