"Wearing khadi was a badge of honour...." - Quote by Indira Gandhi

“... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.”

“Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.”

“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.”

“Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.”

“Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.”

“A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”

“This England never did, nor never shall,Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”

“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”