Top 54 Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quotes
#1. We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State.
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#2. You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state.
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#3. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
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#4. If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
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#5. India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
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#6. I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi.
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#7. If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
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#10. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men
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#11. I see no reason why the Shias should be debarred from having their voice in the elected bodies and governmental institutions in any matter which affect the Shias. We must so organise the Muslim League that justice is done to every sect and section inside it.
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#13. Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.
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#14. Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics ... Religion is merely a matter between man and God.
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#15. 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.
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#16. When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Think well before selecting your leader, and when you have selected him, follow him. But in case you find his policy detrimental to your interests, kick him out.
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#19. I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
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#20. 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.
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#21. We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation.
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#22. What I am afraid of is ... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.
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#23. The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections.
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#24. 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.
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#25. Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
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#26. 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.
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#27. I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
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#28. If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
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#29. I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.
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#30. I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.
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#31. Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.
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#33. 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 the grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
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#36. With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
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#38. 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.
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#39. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan.
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#40. One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
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#45. I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.
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#46. Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India, and this simple fact is the root cause of India's constitutional ills.
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#47. No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
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#49. 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.
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#50. The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.
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#51. You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
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#52. I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united.
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#53. The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.
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#54. India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation.
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