“Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

—  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Address to the League Lucknow session in 1937, following elections held under the Government of India Act, as quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1976) by Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, p. 1

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