(58 quotes found)
“A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Curtis Billings
“Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!”
Contributed by: robert
James Thomson
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“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.”
“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.”
Tobas George Smollet
“It will be necessary for us Indians Muslims, Christians Jews, Parsis, and 7 all others to whom India is their home-to recognize a common flag to live and to die for.”
Unknown
“We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible”
Indira Gandhi
“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?”
