Happy Independence Day India Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Samuel Francis Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Will Durant and many others.
We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
Your future depends on what you do today.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe ‘s languages…Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master’s bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
