Happy Independence Day Quotes 2021

Happy Independence Day Quotes 2021

Independence Day is a very special and precious occasion for INDIA. We celebrate it every year on 15th of August with lots of preparations. We have listed below some motivational, inspirational and revolutionary Independence Day quotes said by the famous personalities and legends on Happy Independence Day of India. We have given list of quotes said by some famous personalities, freedom fighters and legends of India (Swami Vivekananda, Jawaharlal Nehru, B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Bankim Chandra Chaterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bhagat Singh) as well as other countries (Niccolo Machiavelli, Theodore Roosevelt, Elmer Davis, Andrew Jackson, Evo Morales, Alexander Henry, Joseph Pulitzer, Max Mueller, Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln).

Happy Independence Day Quotes 2021

1. “India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.” – Mark Twain 

2. “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.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower 

3. 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.” – Tobas George Smollet  

4. “For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.” – Rajiv Gandhi 

5. “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 astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!” – Mark Twain 

6. “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 


7. “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

8. “One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next” – Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 

9. “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?” – Jawaharlal Nehru 

10. “Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” – Abraham Lincoln 

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11. “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.” – Thomas Paine 

12. “We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” – Robert J. McCracken 

13. “This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.” – Lyndon B. Johnson 

14. “Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Green fields waving, Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease, Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.” – Bankim Chandra Chaterjee 

15. “I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.” – Mahatma Gandhi 

16. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.” – Jawaharlal Nehru 

17. “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it” – Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
“Delhi Chalo” and “Tum Mujhe Khoon Do main Tumhe Ajadi Doonga”. – Subhas Chandra Bose 

18. “Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.” – Subhas Chandra Bose 

19. “Whatever difficulties we may face, we must never give up the quest for truth, which alone is God himself.” – Bal Gangadhar Tilak 

20. “Apparently, I’ve acted like a terrorist. But I’m not a terrorist.” – Mahatma Gandhi 

21. “The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The kingdom of heaven is within us but only pure heart can see the ‘king’!” – Bhagat Singh 

22. “We are Indians, firstly and lastly.” – B.R. Ambedkar 

23. “Citizenship consists in the service of the country.” – Jawaharlal Nehru 

24. “Let new India arise out of peasants’ cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.” – Swami Vivekananda 

25. “I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.” – B.R. Ambedkar 

26. “You must be the change you want to see in the World” – Mahatma Gandhi 

27. “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 

28. “Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?” – Mahatma Gandhi 

29. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”- Mahatma Gandhi 

30. “Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”- Mahatma Gandhi 

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31. “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. 

32. “The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy 

33. “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan 

34. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley 

35. “Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.” – Ho Chi Minh 

36. “We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.” – Charles de Montesquieu 

37. “Injustice, in the end, produces independence.” – Voltaire 

38. “Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.” – George Henry Lewes

39. “India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!” – Hu Shih

40. “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 Mueller

41. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” – Louis D. Brandeis

46. “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.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

47. “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

Happy Independence Day Quotes 2021

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