THREE MEMORABLE QUOTES
Whenever I find a memorable quote in some book or magazine, I
feel in myself a great urge to share it with others.
The following three most memorable quotes are from the
speeches of India’s unique freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose (23.01.1897—18.08.1945).
It was he who raised the first Indian National Army (INA) which
inspired thousands of Indian youths to join the war for liberation from the
British colonial rule and it was also
during this war that he gave the oft-repeated patriotic slogan “Jai Hind”.
The first quotation that follows is
from his Presidential address at the Maharashtra Provincial Conference, Poona,
May 3,1928:
“I agree with Sir Flinders Petrie
that civilizations , like individuals grow and die in a cyclic fashion and that
each civilization has a certain span of life vouchsafed to it. I also agree
with him that, under certain conditions, it is possible for a particular
civilization to be reborn after it has spent itself. When this rebirth is to take
lace, the vital impetus, the elan vital, comes not from without but from
within.”
The next quotation is from the speech
delivered at a military review of the Indian National Army, July 5, 1943:
“A true solider needs both military
and spiritual training. You must, all of you, so train yourselves and your
comrades that every soldier will have unbounded confidence in himself, will be
conscious of being immensely superior to the enemy, will be fearless of death,
and will have sufficient initiative to act on his own in any critical situation
should the need arise. During the course of the present war, you have seen with
your own eyes what wonders scientific
training, coupled with courage, fearlessness and dynamism, can achieve. Learn
all that you can from this example, and build
up for Mother India an absolutely first-class modern army.”
The third and the last quotation is an
excerpt from a broadcast from Singapore,
June 24, 1945
“A true revolutionary is one who
never acknowledges defeat, who never feels depressed or disheartened. A true revolutionary believes in the justice of
his cause and is confident that his cause is bound to prevail in the long run.”
Finally, I acknowledge my indebtedness to the
Government of India’s Publication “The Selected Speeches of Subhas Chandra Bose,
1962.” ---------
26th
October 2021 G.R.KANWAL
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