August 15 marks the Independence Day for India. This year 2021 India will celebrate the 74th year of gaining independence from the British rule. After almost two centuries under imperial rule and after countless sacrifices and struggles, Indians won their freedom on August 15, 1947. Men, women and children lost their lives with pride in uprisings against the British, and managed to successfully drive them out of our motherland. On the eve of Independence Day 2021, here are some patriotic Independence Day Quotes and messages by Freedom Fighters of India.
- “It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the Ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived.” –Bhagat Singh
- “Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh Lord! Grant me a hundred births in India. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.”—Ram Prasad Bismil
- “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
- “Our Nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is Swarajya and the branches are Swadeshi and Boycott.”—Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- “We have believed, and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.” – Indira Gandhi
- “We will face the bullets of the enemies. We are free and will remain free.”—Chandra Shekhar Azad
- “One individual may die; but the idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.”—Subhas Chandra Bose
- “You give me your blood and I will give you Independence!” – Subhas Chandra Bose
- “Let new India arise out of peasants’ cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.”—Swami Vivekananda
- “I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.”—Sarojini Naidu
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- “If defeated and killed on the field of battle, we shall surely earn eternal glory and salvation.”—Rani Lakshmi Bai
- “We must have complete faith in ourselves. We can be successful only if we believe in our efforts.” Nations are made by themselves”. We can take guidance, cooperation, and advice in certain matters but not patronage and diction in all the matters. We are not children but a mature nation with the wisdom of 6000 years behind us.”—Lala Lajpat Rai
- “The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.”—Lok Manya Tilak
- “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”—Mahatma Gandhi
- “This is the fight for freedom, freedom from yesterday, for tomorrow!”—Mangal Pandey
- “My only desire is that India should be a good producer and no one should be hungry, shedding tears for food in the country.”—Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
- “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.”—Jawaharlal Nehru
