“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“We are Indians, firstly and lastly.” – B.R. Ambedkar
“Freedom is not given, it is taken.” – Subhas Chandra Bose
“Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony, and progress in South Asia.” – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.” – Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
“We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.” – Lal Bahadur Shastri
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” – Franklin Pierce Adams
“The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of British rule in India.” – Lala Lajpat Rai
“Let new India arise out of peasants’ cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.” – Swami Vivekananda
“The future of India lies in its youth.” – Swami Vivekananda
“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition.” – Mark Twain
“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Democracy means nothing if people are not able to work the democracy for the common good.” – Chandra Bhushan
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.” – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy
“Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.” – B.R. Ambedkar
“Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh, or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian.” – Sardar Patel
“We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.” – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“A country’s greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.” – Sarojini Naidu
“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
“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 a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.” – Winston Churchill
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.” – Theodore Roosevelt