By the end of 1951, it was decided to hold a general election based on an adult franchise, which produced an electorate of 190 million.

Particular attention should be paid to removing or at least mitigating the cynicism and frustration of the individual voter.

Neither militarily, ideologically, nor morally can one part of humanity afford to write off any other.

When we speak of rights being inalienable, it is society and its institutions that are responsible for ensuring the exercise of these rights and seeing that all can enjoy these rights.

Planning requires priorities to be prescribed as much in the rural sector as in the industrial sector.

If everybody began to think freely–and that is the meaning of freedom, ultimately–we shall get something done.

First, the education of the people, understood in the widest sense of the term, is an essential condition for the experiment's success.

Political freedom and civil liberty are the keystones of the Indian Constitution. Our constitution is primarily shaped and moulded for the common man.

The Bill seeks to provide for the exigencies of the moment, forgetting that the Constitution is meant to endure through generations to come.

The Indian judges' commitment to the written Constitution is absolute and yet elastic to suit the varying needs of changing individuals, society, time and environment.