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Rajendra Prasad Quotes

1884–1963

Dr Rajendra Prasad (December 3, 1884 – February 28, 1963) was the first President of the Republic of India. An Indian political leader, lawyer by training, Prasad joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar.

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There is no resting place for a nation or a people on their onward march.

We often commit mistakes. Our steps falter, our tongues falter and slip and [but] he who had no occasion to withdraw what he once said or was undone what he once did. -Pandit Nehru.

We have got used to relying on precedents of England to such an extent that it seems almost sacrilegious to have a different interpretation even if our conditions and circumstances might seem to require a different interpretation.

Today, for the first time in our long and chequered history, we find the whole of this vast land... brought together under the jurisdiction of one constitution and one union which takes over responsibility for the welfare of more than 320 million men and women who inhabit it.

In July 1946, with the establishment of theConstituent_Assembly frame the Constitution of India, he was elected its President....

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