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I am my own policeman.
Peace at home, peace in the world.
Our true mentor in life is science.
Turkey's true master is the peasant.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
The supreme guide in life is knowledge.
Freedom and independence is my character.
No country is free unless it is democratic.
Freedom and independence form my character.
I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.
A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.
I always give much attention to military character and to psychological and morale conditions.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.
[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.
A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.
Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.
Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.
No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.