Indira Gandhi

“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.”

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

“One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.”

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

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

“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competition there.”

“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.”