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

I know where I am going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I am free to be what I want. Aruna Asaf Ali

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.-Chandra Shekhar Azad

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus

The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The kingdom of heaven is within us but only pure heart can see the king! Bhagat Singh

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. Mark Twain

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