“It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!”

—  Subhas Chandra Bose

Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

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Indian nationalist leader and politician 1897–1945

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