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)

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

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

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

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of the British rule in India. Lala Lajpat Rai