Happy Independence Day

"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.
On the eve of independence, August 15 1947.
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India

"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!"
~ Romaine Rolland, French scholar.
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Patriotism

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
~ George Bernard Shaw.
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True Patriotism

"Ask not your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" - John F.Kennedy