If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India. Max Mueller (German scholar)

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

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

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

Saluting India! Where each bud blooms in its true colours Where each day is celebration of unity, harmony and synthesis.

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