Happy Independence Day India Quotes - Page 2

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  True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

  Memorial Day, Peace, Hate

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• Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

  Tobias Smollett

  Heart, Eye, Eagles

  Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Courage, Freedom

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  Annie Besant

  Inspiring, Thinking, Silent

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• 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.

  Thomas Paine

  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

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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  Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Independence, Mind, India

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• 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

  Wise, Opportunity, Achievement

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”

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• 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

  Sight, Independence, Dawn

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”

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

  Albert Einstein

  India, Gita, Happy Independence Day

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• 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

  Sleep, Destiny, August

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• 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

  Strong, Blood, Independence

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• 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

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Flower

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• 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

  Country, Father, Heaven

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• 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

  Science, Discovery, Taught Us

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

  Leon Blum

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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• 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

  Struggle, Independence, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

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• To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspiring, Law, Long

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

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