The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of the British rule in India. Lala Lajpat Rai

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. Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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. Charles de Montesquieu

We are Indians, firstly and lastly. B.R. Ambedkar

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of now avail to you. BR Ambedkar