“I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.”

—  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

As quoted in Plain Mr. Jinnah : Selections from Quaid-e-Azam's Correspondence (1976)

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