15th August is the national holiday in India which is celebrated as Indian Independence Day. This day is celebrating the freedom of India from British rule on 15th August 1947.15th August is the national holiday in India which is celebrated as Indian Independence Day. This day is celebrating the freedom of India from British rule on 15th August 1947. Indian Independence Day Quotes are also popular worldwide on this day. Indian Independence Day Quotes from famous people around the world are given below.
“May the sun in his course visit no land freer, happier, more lovely, than this our country!”
– Sardar Bhagat Singh
“If the deaf is to hear the sound has to be very loud.”
– Sardar Bhagat Singh
“The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of the British rule in India.”
– Lala Lajpat Rai
“If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.”
– Chandra Shekhar Azad
“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
Indian Independence Day Quotes by Freedom Fighters
Today is the day when we celebrate the history of India’s independence. Some of the most famous freedom fighters from India changed history by making the ultimate sacrifice that led to freedom for the country. They fought against the evils of the British Empire and gave us the freedom which we cherish to this day. In commemoration of their sacrifices, we use their quotes to inspire us to keep fighting for freedom from all forms of oppression. (Readers are supposed to guess that the blog’s theme is India’s Independence Day)
“We are Indians, firstly and lastly.”
– B.R. Ambedkar
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.”
– Subhas Chandra Bose
“Whatever difficulties we may face, we must never give up the quest for truth, which alone is God himself.”
– Bal Gangadhar Tilak
“Apparently, I’ve acted like a terrorist. But I’m not a terrorist.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Let new India arise out of peasants’ cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.”– Swami Vivekananda
“For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.”
– Rajiv Gandhi
“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. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!”
– Mark Twain
“I believe that the civilization of 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
Indian Independence Day Quotes and Sayings
Indian Independence Day is all about India declaring independence from the British Empire on 15th August 1947 after it struggles for more than 50 years. The day is celebrated annually in India and is one of the major festivals celebrated in Asia. It is a day of patriotism and national pride. It is also one of the three national holidays of India. It is celebrated all over India by Indian expatriates all over the world. This day is also celebrated in Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Fiji, the Bahamas, Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, South Africa, and Suriname.
“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
“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
“India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
– Mark Twain
“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
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
– Louis D. Brandeis
“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
“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
“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
“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
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15th August India Independence Day Quotes
India is an independent Sovereign country in South Asia that is nearly 800 million people strong. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. In an Independence Day speech delivered on 15th August 1947, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, talked about the struggle for freedom and the legacy that India intended to leave for future generations. He declared that India would be a democracy and would remain neutral in the conflicts of other countries.
“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
“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
“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
“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
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy against opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
– Thomas Paine
“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
“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
“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.”
– John F. Kennedy
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
– Bob Dylan
Quotes Based on Indian Independence Day
India gained independence from the British on the 15th of August, 1947. The day is commemorated every year in India and also celebrated across the globe as India Day. It is a day of celebration for all Indians, and for the millions of people who have been affected by the events of that day. It is a day of great pride and is marked by many activities, including flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades, and festivities.
“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
“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
“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 to be done.” – Mahatma Gandhi
The Best Indian Independence Day Quotes
Our society often overlooks the most obvious things, thereby causing some of the worst mistakes ever made in this world. The way we celebrated Independence Day on 15th August 1947 was one of them. The independence of India was effected on 15th August 1947 when the British Rule in India ended. But we, the citizens of India, didn’t celebrate it in the way it was supposed to be.
“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You must be the change you want to see in the World”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Flag With Independence Day Quotes
It’s a fact that we shouldn’t take for granted the freedom we get. As much as the freedom of speech and expression and thought. And these days, some people even don’t know the meaning of these words. But some quotes will remind them that they came to Earth to be free and to be respected.
“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
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
– Denis Waitley
“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
“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
“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!”
– Hu Shih
“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
“Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.”
– Ho Chi Minh
“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
“Injustice, in the end, produces independence.”
– Voltaire
“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.”
– George Henry Lewes
