We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
Whopping Happy Independence quotations
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins.
For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul;
then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?
That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery.
That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.
A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.
Happiness is not the whole aim of education.
A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until..."? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!