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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
Sep 10, 2025
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
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.
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
Your future depends on what you do today.
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?
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!
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.
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.