“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members”
Harry S Truman
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.”
William Shakespeare
“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?”
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Jawaharlal Nehru
“If a citizen is legally forced to recognize the sovereignty of the state - there cannot be any speech about freedom.”
Ilkin Santak
“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”
“One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next’”
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
