We know all about the efforts that our freedom fighters put into getting our country back from the clutches of the British empire. As the saying, ‘Pen is mightier than a sword’ goes, it is important to understand the role that words, quotes and writings played in the fight for Independence. Quotes played a major role in motivating the fighters to not give up and persist in their fight to save our country. Here is a list of famous slogans of Indian Freedom Fighters.
List of famous slogans of Indian freedom fighter
Famous Quotes and slogans |
Name of the freedom fighter |
| Do or die (Karo ya maro) | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Quit India | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Bharat Chhodo | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Humne Ghutne Tekkar Roti Mangi Kintu Pathar Mile | Mahatma Gandhi |
| You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Jai Hind | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Dilli Chalo | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Freedom is not given – it is taken. | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| 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 | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| One individual may die but that idea will, after his earth, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Tum Mujhe Khoon Do, main Tumhe Ajadi Doonga”. (Give me blood and I will give you freedom) | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Inqilab Zindabad | Bhagat Singh |
| Samarajywaad ka Naash ho | Bhagat Singh |
| They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit | Bhagat Singh |
| Bombs and pistols do not make revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened by whetting stone of ideas. | Bhagat Singh |
| Revolution’ does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By ‘Revolution’ we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change. | Bhagat Singh |
| Purna Swaraj | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Who lives if India dies | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Araam Haraam hai | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| My ultimate aim is to wipe every tear from every eye | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Jai jawan, Jai Kisan | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| The preservation of freedom is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong. | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means. | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and determination as we fought against aggression | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| Maro Firangon ko | Majal Pandey |
| Kar mat do (Don’t give tax) | Sardar Vallabhai Patel |
| Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. | Sardar Vallabhai Patel |
| Jai Jagat | Vinoba Bhave |
| Vijayi Vishwa Triranga Pyaara | Shyam Lal Gupta councilor |
| Sampurn Kranti | Jai Prakash Narayan |
| Vande Mataram | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called. | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| Jan Gan Man Adhinayak Jaya hey | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it. | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Swaraj (Self Rule) is my birthright, and I shall have it. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Saare jahan se achchha hindustan hamara | Iqbal |
| Simon Commission Go back | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| I declare that the blows struck at me today will be the last nails in the coffin of British rule in India. | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Satyameva Jayate -Truth alone will win | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna, Ab hamare dil mein hai | Ramprasad Bismil |
| Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births in India. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland | Ramprasad Bismil |
| Dushman ki goliyon ka hum samna karenge, Azad hee rahein hain, Azad hee rahenge | Chandra Shekhar Azad |
| Ab bhi jiska khoon nahi khaula khoon nahi vo paani hai, jo desh ke kaam na aaye vo bekaar jawani hai | Chandra Shekhar Azad |
| Khoon se khelenge Holi gar Vatan mushkil main hai | Ashfaqullah Khan |
| There is no dream and if there is, there only one to see my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished | Ashfaqullah Khan |
| Vedon Ki Or Lauto | Dayanand Saraswati |
| My final words of advice to you are educated, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side, I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. | Dr. B R Ambedkar |
| Desh Bachao, Desh Banao | P.V. Narsimha Rao |
| Kam Adhik Batain Kam | Sanjay Gandhi |
| Vijyai Vishv Tiranga Pyara | Shyamlal Gupta |
Conclusion
It is easy to imagine the impact of these well-chosen words on the spirits of the freedom fighters. Words played as important a role as the ahimsa did to save our country from the evil hands of the British empire. In conclusion, it proved once again that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
