Republic Day Quotes | 26th January Sayings, Quotes | 61st Republic Day 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011
Republic Day of India- Happy Republic Day (26th January) Sayings and Quotes

"A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises." By Saul Alinsky

“Democracy means nothing if people are not able to work the democracy for the common good.” By Chandra Bhushan

“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,” By Atal Behari Vajpayee

“All good government is and must be republican. But at the same time, you can or will agree with me, that there is not in lexicography a more fraudulent word... Are we not, my friend, in danger of rendering the word republican unpopular in this country by an indiscreet, indeterminate, and equivocal use of it? Whenever I use the word republic with approbation, I mean a government in which the people have collectively, or by representation, an essential share in the sovereignty... the republican forms in Poland and Venice are much worse, and those of Holland and Bern very little better, than the monarchical form in France before the late revolution." By John Adams