Happy Independence Day India Quotes by Abraham Lincoln, Will Durant, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, B. R. Ambedkar, Rajiv Gandhi and many others.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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.
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.
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.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
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.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
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.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.