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. — Jawaharlal Nehru
The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence — Mahatma Gandhi
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports. — Abdul Kalam
Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength. — Narendra Modi
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda
India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made. — Shashi Tharoor
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
India is a major power, with a youthful and hardworking population, and has an incredibly bright future. I hope the U.K. can be part of that journey as a close partner. — Rishi Sunak
Congress is responsible for every major change in India — Sonia Gandhi
I dream of a Digital India where knowledge is strength - and empowers the People. — Narendra Modi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. — Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis. — Khushwant Singh
India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger. — Narendra Modi
Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. — Vallabhbhai Patel
Happy Independence Day India Quotes
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
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
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. — Vallabhbhai Patel
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
Indian Independence Day Quotes
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
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. — Albert Einstein
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain
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. — Max Muller
In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. — Mark Twain
It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Us Independence Day Quotes
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
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free. — John Taylor Gatto
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
The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us. — Henry McNeal Turner
The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers." — John Adams
Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good story that excites us both, and we have the story written. And we've had it for a year and a half, two years. So we've been ready. — Roland Emmerich
The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day. — Charles Todd
Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us. — Heber J. Grant
India Quotes
India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin. — Imran Khan
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 shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India. — Lala Lajpat Rai
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family. — Narendra Modi
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
We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice. — Indira Gandhi
Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance. — Narendra Modi
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential. — Ratan Tata
I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. — J. R. D. Tata
American Independence Day Quotes
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. — J. Horace McFarland
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become. — Ronald Reagan
Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks. — Chris Rock
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice. — John Adams
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. — Lee Greenwood
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country. — Rafael Cruz
Happy Independence Day Quotes
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. — Ho Chi Minh
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. — Samuel Johnson
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs
I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship. — Michael Urie
Independence Day Quotes
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
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. — Charles Austin Beard
Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course. — Nicola Sturgeon
Indian Culture Quotes
The true India resides in its villages. — Charan Singh
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. — Luther Standing Bear
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. — Mahatma Gandhi
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. — Roland Joffe
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. — Luther Standing Bear
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it. — M. F. Husain
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. — Tecumseh
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished — Frederick Lenz
Independence Day Patriotic Quotes
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved. — Elbert Hubbard
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca
Let freedom never perish in your hands. — Joseph Addison
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring! — Samuel Francis Smith
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days. — Nelson Mandela
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. — Lady Gaga
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day. — Martina McBride
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion. — Allen West
India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!" — Hu Shih
National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education). — Narendra Modi
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