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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Oct 1, 2025
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
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.
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
Your future depends on what you do today.
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?
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.
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!
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.
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.