India is celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose today as ‘Parakram Diwas’. Netaji was known for making inspirational speeches that roused the masses toiling under the British yoke from their deep slumber. Here are some popular and thought-provoking quotes from them.
“Give me blood and I will give you freedom!”
“Freedom is not given – it is taken.”
“It is only on the basis of undiluted nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.”
“No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.”
“Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.”
“Men, money and material cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.”
“The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.”
“Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not know the Absolute Truth.”
“We should have but one desire today – the desire to die so that India may live – the desire to face a martyr’s death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr’s blood.”
“One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.”
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