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

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

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi

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

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our country! Sardar Bhagat Singh