01c. 1912 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1912 ADI do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
03c. 1912 ADYou 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.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
04c. 1912 ADDemocracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
05c. 1912 ADNo nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1912 ADNo settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
07c. 1912 ADThere 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1912 ADNo nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1912 ADWe have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation...Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
10c. 1912 ADIslam 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1912 ADCome 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.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
12c. 1912 ADYou 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.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
13c. 1912 ADWe 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 / quote ↗
14c. 1912 ADPakistan 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.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
17c. 1912 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1912 ADDo 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1912 ADI 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 / quote ↗
20c. 1912 ADIndia is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
21c. 1912 ADAny idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
22c. 1912 ADI have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
23c. 1912 ADThink a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.Muhammad Ali Jinnah / quote ↗
24c. 1912 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
