Best Indira Gandhi Quotes

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.