(14 quotes found)
“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.”
Contributed by: robert
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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.”
Tobas George Smollet
“Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!”
James Thomson
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Contributed by: Andy James
Daniel Webster
“You give me your blood and I will give you Independence!”
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
“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’”
“Freedom is not given, it is taken'”
“Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Green fields waving , Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease, Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.”
Bankim Chandra Chaterjee
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“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.”
