10 Mind-Blowing Quotes by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose That Will Ignite Your Patriotism

By- Malika Sahni

1. Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom.

2. Freedom is not given, it is taken.

3. One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

4. It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

5. No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

6. Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the truth], shivam [the God], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has … roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people.

7. Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle—if there are no risks to be taken.

8. You have only to ask yourselves whether you will remain slaves and put up with every insult and wrong inflicted upon you by the foreigners, or whether you will be free and put up with the inconvenience of home rule.

9. The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

10. To me, the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.