Corruption

1. "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. We must put it down with an
iron hand."
11th August 1947, the Quaid-i-Azam identified the first duty of his
government as the maintenance of law and order. He defined his second
priority in the following words:

2. Corruption is a curse in India and amongst Muslims, especially the so-called

educated and intelligentsia. Unfortunately, it is this class that is selfish and
morally and intellectually corrupt. No doubt this disease is common, but
amongst this particular class of Muslims it is rampant.
M.A. Jinnah to Ispahani, 6 May 1945

Women
3. No 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.
4. No 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. (Speech at a meeting of the
Muslim University Union, Aligarh March 10, 1944.)

Youth/ Students
5. I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with
patience, humbleness and serve thy nation. (All India Muslim Students
Conference Jalandhur, 15 Nov 1942)

6. Pakistan is proud of her youth, particularly the students, who are nation
builders of tomorrow. They must fully equip themselves by discipline,
education, and training for the arduous task lying ahead of them.
7. Develop a sound sense of discipline, Character, Initiative and a solid
Academic Background. You must devote yourself whole-heartedly to your
studies, for that is your first obligation to yourselves, your parents and to the
State. You must learn to obey for only then you can learn to
command. (Islamic College, Peshawar - 12th April, 1948)
8. When you have got that light of knowledge by means of education and when
you have made yourselves strong economically and industrially, then you
have got to prepared yourselves for your defence -- defence against external
aggression and to maintain internal security. (Presidential address at the
conference of the Punjab Muslim Students Federation, March 2, 1941)

Education
10. Without education it is complete darkness and with education it is light.
Education is a matter of life and death to our nation. The world is moving so
fast that if you do not educate yourselves you will be not only completely left
behind, but will be finished up. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) had enjoined his
followers to go even to China in the pursuit of knowledge. If that was the
commandment in those days when communications were difficult, then,
truly, Muslims as the true followers of the glorious heritage of Islam, should
surely utilize all available opportunities. No sacrifice of time or personal
comfort should be regarded too great for the advancement of the cause of
education.
8. You must concentrate on gaining knowledge and education. It is your
foremost responsibility. Political awareness of the era is also part of your
education. You must be aware of international events and environment.
Education is a matter of life and death for our country
5. Development is being sought in every walk of life and you have to take on
this process of development. Are you preparing to take on tomorrows
responsibilities? Are y7ou building your capacity? Are you trained enough? If
no, then go and prepare yourself because this is the time to prepare yourself

for future responsibilities. (Guidance for students through Ministry of

Education.

6. If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we mustbring our
educational policy and programme on the lines suited to the genius of our people,
consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and
vast development that have taken place all over the world.What we have to do is to
mobilize our people and build up the character of our future generationIn short, we
have to build up the character of our future generations which means highest sense of
honour, integrity, selfless service to the nation, and sense of responsibility, and we have to
see that they are fully qualified or equipped to play their part in the various branches of
economic life in a manner which will do honour to Pakistan. (Message to All Pakistan
Education Conference, Karachi, 27 November 1947.)

Islam/ Quran

9. You have asked me to give you a message. What message can I give you?
We have got the great message in the Quran for our guidance and
enlightenment. (Message to NWFP Muslim Students Federation, April
1943)
10. Islam and its idealism have taught democracy. Islam has taught equality, justice and fairplay
to everybody. What reason is their for anyone to fear democracy, equality, freedom on the
highest standard of integrity and on the basis of fairplay and justice for everybody..Let us
make it (the future constitution of Pakistan), We shall make it and we shall show it to the
world. (Address, Bar Association, Karachi, 25 January 1948)

Pakistan
There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan. (Speech at a
Mammoth Rally at the University Stadium, Lahore on 30th October. 1947.)
Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources.
The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build,
and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God
speed.

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. LAHORE 15th August 1947.
Work honestly and sincerely and be faithful and loyal to the Pakistan
Government
My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with
your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the
greatest Nations of the world.(Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of
Pakistan on 11th August, 1947.)
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. (Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation
October 24, 1947.)
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, social
justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. With faith, discipline and selfless
devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. (Address to the officers
and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi February
21, 1948.)

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should
concentrate on the well being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
Everyone of you, no matter what his colour, caste or creed, is first, second or last a
citizen of this State with equal rights, privileges and obligations. (Address, Constituent
Assembly of Pakistan, 11 August 1947)
My.message to our brother Muslim States is one of friendship and goodwill. We
are all passing through perilous time. The drama of power politics that is being staged in
Palestine, Indonesia and Kashmir should serve as an eye opener to us. It is only by
putting up a united front that we can make our voice felt in the counsels of the
world. (Eid Message, 7 August 1948)

Those days have gone when the country was ruled by the bureaucracy. It is peoples
Government, responsible to the people more or less on democratic lines and parliamentary
practice.Make the people feel that you are their servants and friends, maintain the highest
standard of honour, integrity, justice and fairplay. (Address to Gazetted Officers, Chittagong,
25 March 1948)

Duties of Government

You will no doubt agree with me that 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.....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. (Address, Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Karachi, 11 August 1947)
The Government can only have for its aim one objective how to serve the people, how to

devise ways and means for their welfare, for their betterment. What other object can the
Government have..? (Address, Public Meeting, Dacca, 21 March 1948)
I want you to keep your heads up as citizens of a free and independent sovereign State.

Praise your Government when it deserves. Citicize your Government fearlessly when it
deserves, but do not go on all the time attacking, indulging in destructive criticism, taking
delight in running down the Ministry or the officials. (Reply to welcome address, Edwardes
College, Peshawar, 18 April 1948)
Representative governments and representative institutions are no doubt good and
desirable, but when people want to reduce them merely to channels of personal
aggrandizement, they not only lose their value but earn and bad name. We must subject our
actions to perpetual security and test them with the touchstone, not of personal or sectional
interest, but of the good of the State. (Address at Quetta Municipality, 15 June 1948.)

This is your Government. It is quite different from its predecessor. Therefore,

appreciate when a good thing is done. Certainly criticize fearlessly, when a wrong
thing is done. I welcome criticism, but it must be honest and constructive. (Address,
Edwardes College, Peshawar, 18 April 1948)

Equality of Citizens/ Constitution

We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and
equal citizens of one State. (Presidential Address to the Constituent
Assembly of Pakistan on 11th August, 1947.)
The constitution of Pakistan has yet to be framed by the Pakistan
Constituent Assembly. I do not know what the ultimate shape of this
constitution is going to be, but I am sure that it will be of a democratic type,
embodying the essential principle of Islam. Today, they are as applicable in
actual life as they were 1,300 years ago. Islam and its idealism have taught
us democracy. It has taught equality of man, justice and fairplay to
everybody. We are the inheritors of these glorious traditions and are fully
alive to our responsibilities and obligations as framers of the future
constitution of Pakistan. In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic
State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many nonMuslims --Hindus, Christians, and Parsis --but they are all Pakistanis. They will
enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their

rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.(Broadcast talk to the people of the

United States of America on Pakistan recorded February, 1948.)
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. (Reply to the
Civic Address presented by the Quetta Municipality on 15th June, 1948.)
I naturally welcome your statement that you do not believe in provincialism. You must learn
to distinguish between your love for your province and your love and duty to the State as a
whole. Our duty to the State takes us a stage beyond provincialism. It demands a broader
sense of vision, and (a) greater sense of patriotism. Our duty to the State often demands that
we must be ready to submerge our individual or provincial interests into the common cause for
common good. Our duty to the State comes first: our duty to our Province, to our district, to our
town and to our village and ourselves comes next. (Speech, Islamia College, Peshawar, 12 April
1948)

Minorities

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. (Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of
Pakistan on 11th August, 1947.)

Minorities can rest assured that their rights will be protected. No civilized Government
can be run successfully without giving minorities a complete sense of security and confidence.
They must be made to feel that they have a hand in Government and to do this they must have
adequate representation in it. Pakistan will give this. (Interview to APA representative, Bombay,
8 November 1945.)

Decision
Think Hundred Time Before you take a Decision But once that Decision is
Taken, Stand by it as one man.

Islam
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.(Quaid-e-Azam)
Brotherhood, equality, and fraternity of man these are all the basic points of our religion,

culture and civilization and we fought for Pakistan because there was a danger of the
denial of these human rights in this Subcontinent. (Address, Public Reception, Chittagong,
26 March 1948.)

Pre-Partition

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. (Address to the people in Chittagong, 23rd March, 1948.)
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. (Address to

Civil, Naval, Military and Air Force Officers of Pakistan Government, Karachi October 11, 1947.)

Musalmans are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their

homelands, their territory and their State. We wish to live in peace and harmony with our
neighbours as a free and independent people. We wish our people to develop to the fullest
our spiritual, cultural, economic social, and political life in a way that we think best, and in
consonance with our own ideals and according to the genius of our people. (Presidential
Address, 27th Session, All India Muslim League , Lahore, 22 24 March 1940)
We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or

test of a nation. We are a nation of a hundred million people, and, what is more, we are a
nation with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and
architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of value and proportion, legal laws and moral
codes, customs and calendar, history and traditions, aptitudes and ambitions in short, we
have our own distinctive outlook on life and of life. By all canons of international law we are
a nation. (Jinnahs reply (17 September 1944) to Gandhis contention (15 September 1944);
I find no parallel in history for a body of converts and their descendants claiming to be a
nation apart from the parent stock.)
The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad

(PBUH).But make no mistake Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it. Islam
demands from us the tolerance of other creeds and we welcome in closest association with
us all those who of whatever creed, are themselves willing and ready to play their part as
true and loyal citizens of Pakistan.(Broadcast talk to the people of Australia,19 February
1948)
We have to fight a double-edged battle, one against the Hindu Congress and the other

against British Imperialists, both of them being capitalists. The Muslims demand Pakistan
where they could rule according to their own code of life and according to their own cultural
growth, traditions, and Islamic Laws. (Muslim League Conference on November 21, 1945 )
We do not demand Pakistan simply to have a piece of land but we want a laboratory where

we could experiment on Islamic principles. (In 1946, at Islamia College)

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but Muslim ideology, which has to be

preserved which came to us as a precious gift and treasure and which we hope, other will
share with us. (Message to the Frontier Muslim Students Federation)

The Hindu Muslim dispute must be settled before the enforcement of any system or
constitution. Until you do not give guarantee for the safeguard of the Muslim interests, until

you do not win their (Muslims) co-operations, any constitution you enforece shall not last for
even 24 hours. (Address At Second Round Table Conference in 1931)
The Muslims are a nation by every right to establish their separate homeland. They can

adopt any means to promote and protect their economic social, political and cultural
interests.
The Mussalmans are not a minority. They are a nation by any definition. By all canons of

International law we are a nation. (On 23rd March, 1940 at the historic session of the
Muslim League at Lahore)
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a Sub Continent of nationalities. Hindus and

Muslims being the two major nations. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different
religions, philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither intermarry nor inter dine
and they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas
and conceptions. Their aspects on life and of are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and
Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. (Presidential address at
the annual session of Muslim League at Lahore in 1940)
Hindus and Muslims through living in the same town and villages had never been
blended into one nation. They were always two separate entities. (On March 8, 1944 while
addressing the students of Muslim University)

Foreign Policy
Our foreign policy is one of friendliness and goodwill towards all the nations of the world. We

do not cherish aggressive designs against any country or nation. We believe in the principle
of honesty and fairplay in national and international dealings and are prepared to make our
utmost contribution to the promotion of peace and prosperity among the nations of the
world. Pakistan will never be found lacking in extending its material and moral support to
the oppressed and suppressed peoples of the world and in upholding the principles of the
United Nations Charter. (Broadcast to USA, February 1948.)
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. (Press Conference, New Delhi, 14 July 1947)

Democracy

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood

[mankind][and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty. (London, 14 December 1946)

Muslims in Pakistan want to be able to establish their own real democratic popular
government. This government will have the sanctionof the people of Pakistan and will
function with the will and sanction of the entire body of people in Pakistan, irrespective of
caste or colour. (Interview to the Daily Worker, London, 1944.)

I have one underlying principle in mind: the principle of Muslim democracy. It is my belief
that our salvation lies in following the golden rules of conduct set for us by our great
lawgiver, the Prophet of Islam. (1948)

Journalists

I say, protect the innocent, protect those journalists who are doing their duty and who are
serving both the public and the Government by criticizing the Government freely,
independently, honestly which is an education for any Government. (Speech on the
condition of the Press in India in the Imperial Legislative Council, 19 September 1918)