Tuesday, 26 October 2021

THREE MEMORABLE QUOTES

 

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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