Republic Day Quotes

• Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• 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 narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Wall, Father

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

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• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Age, India, Spirit

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• We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  India, Indian

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• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, India, Republic

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Society, Trying, Republic

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• Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Cobblers, Cottages

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

  Samuel Richardson

  Republic, Letters, Littles

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.415

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• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, Citizens, Weight

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902

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• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  Bertrand Russell

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

  "Sceptical Essays". Ch. 13: Freedom in Society. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1928.

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• 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.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Sight, Independence, Dawn

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”

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• Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

  Michael Crichton

  Safety, Patriotism, Lasts

  Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

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• The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  India, Republic, Firm

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• 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

  Country, Father, Heaven

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

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

  William Plomer

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Country, Freedom

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Flags, Weight, Republic

  Imperialism (Flag of an Empire), delivered 8 August 1900, Indianapolis, IN

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• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

  "Offensive Remarks Are Part of Free Speech" by Hilary Hirschfeld, www.smudailycampus.com. October 22, 2008.

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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