Independence Quotes
When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Every Congressman who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is not fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Pakistan is merely another manifestation of a cultural unit demanding freedom for the growth of its own distinctive culture.
In my opinion, it is only when Hindu society becomes a casteless society that it can hope to have strength enough to defend itself. Without suchinternal strength, swaraj for Hindus may turn out to be only a step towards slavery.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of himself.
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
The Turkish Nation consists of the valiant descendants of a people that has lived independently and has considered independence the sole condition of existence.
Independence means that the Turkish nation will live as an honorable nation. That is the basis for everything.
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 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.
A tyrst with destiny - At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
Ascetic ideals reveal so many bridges to independence that a philosopher is bound to rejoice and clap his hands when he hears the story of all those resolute men who one day said No to all servitude and went into some desert.
One must know how to conserve oneself - the best test of independence.
Shackled heart, free spirit. Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I know its affinity and solidarity with the other.
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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