Quaid Quotes

• Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Issues, People, Tasks

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Leader, Desire, Majority

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Address to the Muslim League Lucknow, www.columbia.edu. October 1937.

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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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• 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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• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Success, Money, Business

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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, Quaid Azam

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

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• We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Wall, Evil, House

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

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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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• Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Believe, Blood, Democracy

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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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• There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Influence And Power, Pakistan, Earth

  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, Quaid Azam

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

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• India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Country, India, Quaid Azam

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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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• I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Religious, Pseudo, Advocating

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• I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Thinking, India And Pakistan, Friendly

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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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• Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Inspirational, Life, Taken

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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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• 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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