Republic Day Quotes

"We are Indians, firstly and lastly."

- B. R. Ambedkar

"Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia."

- Atal Behari Vajpayee

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

- Swami Vivekananda

"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams."

- Atal Behari Vajpayee

"Democracy means nothing if people are not able to work the democracy for the common good."

- Chandra Bhushan

"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

"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."

- Elmer Davis

"Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result."

- Andrew Jackson

"The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all."

- Evo Morales

"A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties."

- Franklin Pierce

"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule."

- Gerald R. Ford

"The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."

- Joseph Pulitzer

"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."

- Friedrich Engels

"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

"On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!"

- Alexander Henry

"The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once."

- Andrew Jackson

"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