Independence Day Quotes - 15 August Quotes

Independence Day Quotes - 15 August Quotes

Independence Day Quotes - 15 August Quotes

“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single

soldier across her border!” –Hu Shih

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, hasm most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”– Max Mueller

“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

“Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute

to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.” -Indira Gandhi

“At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with hers 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

“How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master’s bidding. He may torture

me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience.

Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he

wanted done.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the

secret of liberty.” – Louis D. Brandeis

“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.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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

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