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
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Mahatma Gandhi
Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. Mark Twain
We are Indians, firstly and lastly. B.R. Ambedkar
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived. Bhagat Singh
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
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Mahatma Gandhi
Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. Mark Twain
We are Indians, firstly and lastly. B.R. Ambedkar
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived. Bhagat Singh