Famous Saying on Republic Day of India

1. Famous Saying on Republic Day of India Republic Day is an occasion in India that is celebrated with great pomp and show on January 26th. It was on 26th January, 1950 when the Constitution of India came into existence, thereby declaring India as not only a Sovereign but also the Socialist and Secular Democratic Republic. Mahatma Gandhi “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.” For more information, visit: http://top10tale.com/category/entertainment/ Jawaharlal Nehru “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?” Will Durant “India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all”

2. Henry David Thoreau “Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.” Sylvia Levi “She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim … her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands Rabindranath Tagore Where The Mind Is Without Fear And The Head Is Held High; Where Knowledge Is Free; Where The World Has Not Been Broken Up Into Fragments By Domestic Walls; Where Words Come Out From The Depth Of Truth; Where Tireless Striving Stretches Its Arms Towards Perfection; Where The Clear Stream Of Reason Has Not Lost Its Way Into The Dreary Desert Sand Of Dead Habit; 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