Republic Day Quotes - Page 2

• Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Journey, Progress, Together

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• A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

  Indira Gandhi

  Strength, Freedom, Debt

  Indira Gandhi (1984). “Indira Gandhiʾs Legacy to the Indian Nation: Economic Development and the Public Sector”

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• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, India, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Years, India, Division

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• Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Liberty, Foundation

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• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  Allen West

  Compassion, Independence, Together

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• This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

  James Bovard

  Law, President, India

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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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• A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

  Mike Pence

  India, Republic, Our Actions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

  Grover Cleveland

  Political, Honor, Republic

  Veto of Dependent Pension Bill, 5 July 1888

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• But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Abuse, India, Republic

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• Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Independence, India

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• The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Hands, Generations, Republic

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  India, Indian

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• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Age, United States, Spirit

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• Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Promise, Republic, Proof

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• We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Meaningful, Needs, Republic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, India, Republic

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Society, Trying, Republic

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

  Michael Crichton

  Safety, Patriotism, Lasts

  Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

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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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• The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  India, Republic, Firm

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