“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”
Stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/strayreflections/index.htm
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Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement 1877–1938Related quotes
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