I'm not so happy to see some of the sarcastic and jovial quotes here.

India is a Great Nation. Few iconic quotes by Great people given below,

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only"
- Mark Twain

"India was the motherland of our race and Sanksrit the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in christianity..of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all."
- Will Durant
American Historian

"If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when Man began the dream of existence, it is India"
- Romain Rollan
French Philosopher

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
- Albert Einstein

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border"
- Hu Shih, Fomer Ambassador of China to USA

"Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago."
- Grant Duff, British Historian

"It is already becoming clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race... At this supremely dangerous moment in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way."
- Dr. Arnold Toynbee, British Historian

"In religion, India is the only millionaire... The one land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined".
- Mark Twain, American Author