Inspiring Independence Day Quotes:

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

- Ho Chi Minh

topic: Single, Being Single, Independence, Inspiring Independence Day, Happy Independence Day

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

- Samuel Francis Smith

source: "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14

topic: 4th Of July, Mountain, Sides, July 4, Inspiring Independence Day

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Inspiring, Girl, Strong Women, Independence Of Thought, Women's Suffrage

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

- John Dickinson

source: "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

topic: Fall, 4th Of July, Hands, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4th 1776

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

topic: Sleep, Destiny, August, Make In India, Independence And Freedom

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, July 4th 1776

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

topic: Science, Discovery, Taught, Make In India, India Independence Day

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

- Rajiv Gandhi

topic: Powerful, Fall, People, Make In India, Independence And Freedom

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

topic: Struggle, Done, Body, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

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 instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mother, Past, Men, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day

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 Muller

source: Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

topic: Sky, Mind, India, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

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

source: Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”

topic: Dream, Home, Men, Make In India, Independence Day Patriotic

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

- Mark Twain

topic: Men, Independence, India, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Freedom, Land, Failing, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom, Inaugural Speech, Independence And Freedom

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

- James G. Blaine

topic: Country, 4th Of July, United States, July 4th 1776, Inspiring Independence Day

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

- Moshe Dayan

source: Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Of the people, by the people, for the people,

- Sun Yat-sen

topic: People, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Freedom, Inspirational Patriotic, Inspiring Independence Day

India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

topic: Religious, Land, Ideas, India Independence Day, Indian

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free .....

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

topic: Mind, Independence Of Thought, India Independence Day, Indian, Indian Independence Day

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: 4th Of July, Blow, Men, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

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

topic: Strong, Blood, Growth, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Motivational, Education, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Individual Independence

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

source: William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Charity

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

topic: Country, Two, Independence, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Memorial Day, Freedom, America, Inaugural, Inaugural Speech

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

Be the change you want to see in your networks

- James H. Fowler

topic: Want, Managing Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice, Live Life To Its Fullest

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

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

topic: Believe, Fate, Japan, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

topic: Country, Father, Heaven, Independence And Freedom, Independence Of Thought

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Men, Independence And Freedom, Indian Independence Day

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: 4th Of July, Kids, Gun, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Government, People, Earth, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

- George Henry Lewes

source: George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

topic: Uprising, Independence, Originality, Inspiring Independence Day, Antagonism

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

- Joseph Addison

topic: 4th Of July, Hands, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, July 4th 1776

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

- Hu Shih

source: "Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.

topic: Soldier, India, Borders, Make In India, India Independence Day

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Retirement, Children, Responsibility, Happy Children, Indian Independence Day

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Social Democracy, Power Corruption

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Clever, Independence And Freedom, Man And Superman