“Britain has handled us and the question of our independence not in our interest, but in hers. ... (We) have been part of a barter deal with the U.S.A.; part of the price paid for the U.S. government's defense of Empire interests.”
Cheddi Jagan
“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.”
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Jawaharlal Nehru
“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?”
“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
“Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!”
James Thomson
“If they choose a leader who advocates Taiwan independence, this timetable may well not be a question of years, but of a few dozen hours.”
Xu Bodong
