Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

A tyrst with destiny - At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.

He stepped down from his comfortable life to join the masses on their level to seek equality with them. "I can't hope to bring about economic equality... I have to reduce myself to the level of the poorest of the poor."

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.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The Turkish Nation consists of the valiant descendants of a people that has lived independently and has considered independence the sole condition of existence.