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  • India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.

    Religious   Land   Ideas  
  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

  • India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

    "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.
  • India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

    "Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.
  • 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.

    Sleep   Destiny   August  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”
  • So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

    Inspiring   Law   Long  
    Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference, www.columbia.edu. May 31, 1936.
  • 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.

    Past   Men   Land  
  • When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

  • For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

    Powerful   Fall   People  
  • True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  • We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

    Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”
  • So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

    Country   Men   Judging  
    Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.243
  • India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. Chalo Delhi (March to Delhi).

    Sleep   Kissing   Army  
    Subhas Chandra Bose (2007). “Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945”
  • 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.

    Freedom   Blood   Water  
    "Character: Chandra Shekhar Azad". "Rang De Basanti", www.imdb.com. 2006.
  • 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.

    Mother   Race   Europe  
  • A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

    Freedom   Men   Liberty  
  • In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

    Book   Exercise   Voice  
  • At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

    Powerful   Sleep   Long  
    Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”
  • This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  • One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

    Subhas Chandra Bose (2004). “The Alternative Leadership: Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters June 1939–1941”, p.197, Orient Blackswan
  • God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

    Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47
  • India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

    Mother   Past   Men  
  • 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.

    Freedom   Real   Destiny  
  • The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

  • Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2941, e-artnow
  • I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

    Believe   Fate   Japan  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press
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