Quotes About India's Independence

#1. The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.

Narendra Modi

#2. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Mark Twain

#3. The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

Albert Einstein

#5. Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due!
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.

Alfred Tennyson

#6. When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

Nandan Nilekani

#7. As India will complete 75 years of Independence in the year 2022, let's work towards Surajya & a nation where every section of society is developed.

Narendra Modi

#8. Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

Shashi Tharoor

#9. I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.

Wyclef Jean

#10. India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Mark Twain

#11. The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.

Narendra Modi

#12. The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

Paul Robeson

#14. God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.

Winkie Pratney

#15. I was good at art - always good at art.

Robert Barry

#16. Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.

Vikrmn

#17. To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Francis Bacon

#19. 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 Muller

#20. When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity.

Narendra Modi

#22. I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. When the communists won the Chinese civil war in 1949, they accepted neither the semi-independence of Tibet nor the boundary lines drawn by British imperialism between Tibet and India.

Bruce Riedel

#24. Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

Teddy Thompson

#25. India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.

Abdul Kalam

#26. I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#27. The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...

Bipan Chandra

#28. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru