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It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived. Bhagat Singh

Saluting India! Where each bud blooms in its true colours Where each day is celebration of unity, harmony and synthesis.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. Jawaharlal Nehru

I declare that the blows struck at me today will be the last nails in the coffin of British rule in India. Go back Siman Lala Lajpat Rai

You give me your blood and I will give you Independence! -Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement. Bhagat Singh

We have believed and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. Indira Gandhi

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

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? Mahatma Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not given - it is taken. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose