We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
Promising Independence And Freedom quotations
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.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

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.
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.
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.
.. In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.
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.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

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.
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.
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.
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.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
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."

God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty. And if you want peace, love your nation. The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.