We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
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. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. — Ho Chi Minh
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein
Never regret anything that made you smile.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. — Vallabhbhai Patel
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine
Happy Independence Day India Quotes
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. — Jawaharlal Nehru
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. — Rabindranath Tagore
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. — Will Durant
True Independence Quotes
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind. — Isabella Rossellini
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish. — Paul Kagame
My journey with Zoom began with a desire for the independence to build something that would make users happy, a true video-first unified communications platform. — Eric Yuan
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity. — James Joyce
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block. — Debbie Allen
Just because a lot of people say something is true, that doesn’t carry any particular weight with me. — Edward O. Thorp
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. — Brigham Young
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. — Elizabeth Loftus
Independence Day Quotes
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. — Bhagat Singh
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone — Katharine Hepburn
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Independence And Freedom Quotes
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. — Nelson Mandela
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. — Ho Chi Minh
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends. — Friedrich Engels
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. — Enoch Powell
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood. — Emma Goldman
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country Independence Quotes
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity. — Saadat Hasan Manto
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. — Samuel Adams
India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind. — Rajiv Gandhi
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. — Herbert Hoover
The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world. — Nicola Sturgeon
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
We are all here, defending our independence, our country. And it will stay that way. Glory to the men and women defending us. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof. — Nathanael Greene
I think everybody in Ukraine is so tired about Burisma. We have our own country. We have our independence, we have our problems and questions. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. — Abraham Lincoln
More Happy Independence Quotes
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda
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. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. — Ho Chi Minh
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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. — Terence McKenna
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. — Vallabhbhai Patel
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. — Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
If you want to take the road to independence and happiness, find the right person to depend on and travel down it with that person. — Amir Levine
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine
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." — Samuel Eliot Morison
My journey with Zoom began with a desire for the independence to build something that would make users happy, a true video-first unified communications platform. — Eric Yuan
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. — Epictetus
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. — John Cornyn
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. — Benjamin Franklin
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. — Thomas Paine
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. — Susan B. Anthony
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed — Walter E. Williams
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? — John Tyler
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. — Diane von Furstenberg
A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions. — Ayya Khema
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. — Louis D. Brandeis
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. — Boris Yeltsin
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. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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. — Frederic Bastiat
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks. — Chris Rock
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. — Maria Montessori
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. — Epictetus
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. — Jawaharlal Nehru
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. — James Madison
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. — Rabindranath Tagore
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! — Michael Beckwith
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others. — Alex Epstein
Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher
Liberty is the breath of life to nations. — George Bernard Shaw
I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. — Robin Williams
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness. — Bob Marshall
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. — Samuel Johnson
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring. — Samuel Francis Smith
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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