Quaid Azam Quotes

• You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Pakistan, Mosques, May

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to the Constituent Assembly, August 11, 1947.

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• I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Positive, Believe, Self Confidence

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• No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Pakistan, Height, Sides

  Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh, March 10, 1944.

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• My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Courage, Determination, Persistence

  Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation, October 24, 1947.

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• Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Creating, Jinnah, Three

  "Jinnah of Pakistan". Book by Stanley Wolpert, 1984.

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• No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Struggle, Men, Pakistan

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Ideas, India And Pakistan, India Pakistan

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• With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Selfless

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of histrorical achievements and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Young Generation

  "Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah", December 24, 1940.

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• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Competition, Stronger

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Tragic

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Equality, Justice

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Islam

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• Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Friendly, Pakistan, World

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• We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Men, Light

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• You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Determination, Selfless, Matter

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• I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Humility, Names, Titles

  "Plain Mr. Jinnah : Selections from Quaid-e-Azam's Correspondence". Book by Mahomed Ali Jinnah, 1976.

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• The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Mistake, Teaching, Rights

  Broadcast to the people of Australia, February 19, 1948.

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• I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Past, People

  Message to the Nation on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Pakistan, August 14, 1948.

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• In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Lying, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• I don't take right decisions, I take decisions and make them right

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Decision, Quaid, Right Decision

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• I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Satisfaction, Humbleness, Strive

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• We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Destiny, Giving

  Speech at the opening ceremony of the State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, July 1, 1948.

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• That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Dark, Sacrifice, Self

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Feet, Proud, Should

  Reply to the Civic Address presented by the Quetta Municipality, June 15, 1948.

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