SELECTED INDIA INDEPENDENCE QUOTES
“The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” – Jawaharlal Nehru on August 14, 1947
“Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.” – B. R. Ambedkar
“Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.” – Subhas Chandra Bose
“Whatever difficulties we may face, we must never give up the quest for truth, which alone is God himself.” – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”- Mahatma Gandhi
“Arise! Awake! And stop not until the goal is reached.” – Attributed to Swami Vivekananda
“Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.” – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
“Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.” – Bhagat Singh
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
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
“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
“Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it” – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
“Delhi Chalo” and “Tum Mujhe Khoon Do main Tumhe Ajadi Doonga”. – Subhas Chandra Bose
“Apparently, I’ve acted like a terrorist. But I’m not a terrorist.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The kingdom of heaven is within us but only pure heart can see the ‘king’!” – Bhagat Singh
“We are Indians, firstly and lastly.” – B.R. Ambedkar
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“Let new India arise out of peasants’ cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.” – Swami Vivekananda
“You must be the change you want to see in the World” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”- Mahatma Gandhi
