Section: «Quotes»
A quotation (from Latin citare, citatum - to proclaim, to cite) is a verbatim excerpt from some text of someone's speech; the author's words, cited to support it with authority or simply to illustrate one's own expressed thought, or to criticize the quoted thought itself.
“A life without freedom is like a body without soul.”— Bhagat Singh
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“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”— Jawaharlal Nehru
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“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”— Jawaharlal Nehru
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“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life.”— Subhas Chandra Bose
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“Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.”— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”— William Faulkner
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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”— James Madison
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“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”— Herbert Hoover
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“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”— John F. Kennedy
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“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”— Adlai Stevenson
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“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”— Declaration of Independence, 1776
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”— Ronald Reagan
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“The essence of America—what really unites us—is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion. It’s an idea.”— Condoleezza Rice
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”— Abraham Lincoln
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