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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Oct 1, 2025
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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.
This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.
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?
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
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.
Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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.
I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
Be the change you want to see.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
Build what you want to see in the world.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.