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For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

There is no parallel in the history of the world. This mighty subcontinent with all kinds of inhabitants has been brought under a plan which is titanic, unknown, unparalleled. And what is very important with regard to it is that we have achieved it peacefully and by means of an evolution of the greatest possible character.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’

What is not recorded is not remembered.