Quotes on Happy Independence Day

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

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.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

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.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

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.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

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.

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.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

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.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.