Indian Independence Day Quotes

Indian Independence Day Quotes by Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Joey Comeau, Romain Rolland, George Bernard Shaw, Indira Gandhi and many others.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
Joey Comeau
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.
Romain Rolland
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Sri Aurobindo
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Rabindranath Tagore
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark Twain
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
Mark Twain
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
In religion, India is the only millionaire… the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
Mark Twain
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox