The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out. 

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. l 

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human values, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.

A country’s greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.