INDEPENDENCE DAY QUOTES (15 AUGUST)
INDEPENDENCE DAY OF INDIA (15 AUGUST) QUOTES
Independence day quotes|India celebrates Independence Day on August 15 every year. India became an independent nation on August 15, 1947, so a gazetted holiday is held annually to remember this date.
Independence Day Quotes, which is celebrated religiously throughout the Country on the 15th of August every year, holds tremendous ground in the list of national days, since it reminds every Indian about the dawn of a new beginning, the beginning of an era of deliverance from the clutches of British colonialism of more than 200 years.
It was on 15th August 1947 that India was declared independent from British colonialism, and the reins of control were handed over to the leaders of the Country. India's gaining of independence was a tryst with destiny, as the struggle for freedom was a long and tiresome one, witnessing the sacrifices of many freedom fighters, who laid down their lives on the line.
“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!”
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”
“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”
“Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.”
“At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.”
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!”
“India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
“Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.”
“For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.”
“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
“One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next”
“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”
f he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their plows but to secure liberty for their souls.”
“This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.”
Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it”
“Delhi Chalo” and “Tum Mujhe Khoon Do main Tumhe Ajadi Doonga”.
“Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.”
“Whatever difficulties we may face, we must never give up the quest for truth, which alone is God himself.”
“Apparently, I’ve acted like a terrorist. But I’m not a terrorist.”
“The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The kingdom of heaven is within us but the only pure heart can see the ‘king’!”
“We are Indians, firstly and lastly.”
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
“Let new India arise out of peasants’ cottage, grasping the plow, out of huts, cobbler, and sweeper.”
“You must be the change you want to see in the World”
“Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.”
“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.”
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
“Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.”
“We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.”
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