Indian Sovereignty Quotes

Keep him [Muhammad Ali Jinnah] far away and prevent his muddled and arrogant head from interfering continually in India's progress.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

The fact that I can unfurl the Indian flag the world over is the biggest honour.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

India will, in the next two decades become a major power and if it fails to do that external pressures will break her up

As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

I don't think that NTR is anti-Indian.

Kashmir is an integral part of India, and nobody can take it away from us.

No one can dare cast an evil eye on India.

All Indian property captured from this date will belong to the corps or detachment making it.

In the past 190 years, the U.S. government has tried every possible way to get rid of the troublesome Indian problem he feels he has on his hands. First the government tried extinction through destruction – where money was paid for the scalps of every dead Indian. Then the government tried mass relocation… Then the government tried assimilation… The termination was tried by issuing forced patents in fee to Indian land owners – land was taken out of the trust relationship with the U.S. government and an unrestricted patent in fee was issued to the Indian whether he wanted it or not or whether he understood it or not.

The outlook is rather that within a few years India will be given up as Egypt has been given up. The British democracy will not try to retain her by force. Of that we may be sure. The enormous benefits that England has conferred on the country and its swarming millions will count for nothing in retaining their allegiance. The jealousies, rivalries and hatreds of race and creed among the many different peoples, though they may make trouble enough hereafter, have not proved capable of preventing them from combining against their British masters.

Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.

Following the War of 1812, the young United States had no further need for Indian allies against the British, and as a result the fortunes of the Indians declined rapidly. By 1848, twelve new states had been carved out of the Indian's lands, two major and minor Indian wars had been fought, and group after group of Indians had been herded westward, on forced marches, across the Mississippi River.

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

Kashmiri people should not get misguided by pro-Pakistani elements and remember that their future is linked to India.

There is no concept of a Tamil nation. India is one nation, and Tamil Nadu is a part of that.

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'