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

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

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let freedom never perish in your hands. - Joseph Addison

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.-Swami Vivekananda

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