Quotes on Independence Day

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.

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.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

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.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

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!

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.