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After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
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Important Nation Religion Survive
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.
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Change Confusion History Humanity Quality Truth Writing
Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.
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Face Life Murder Nation War
Nations which don’t find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
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Identity Myself Nation Prey
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.
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Book Direction Heaven Life Principle See World
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.
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Destiny Feeling Military Myself Preparatory Strength
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.
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Beginning End Myself People Victory
A man who doesn’t think differently from his time and environment can’t grow beyond his time and environment.
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Different Environment Himself Man Thinking Time
Peace at home, peace in the world.
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Home Peace World
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
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Country Demand Nation Right Territory
After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
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Live Lost Ourselves Son
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
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Care Civilization Guide Ignorance Reliable Science
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
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Freedom Myself Politics Recieve
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.
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Humanity Independence Level Prosperity Rich Service Subject
Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.
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Concept Country Judgement Knowledge People Reason
Freedom and independence form my character.
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Character Form Freedom Independence
Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
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Infrastructure Justice Politics
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
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Creativity Woman Work World
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who … as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.
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Academic Force Power Result Right Rule Violence
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
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Country Home Peace World
No country is free unless it is democratic.
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Country Democracy
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.
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Faith Inspirational Law Life Nation Need
You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
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Circumstance Daughter Finding Power Son Yourself
The supreme guide in life is knowledge.
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Guide Knowledge Life
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.
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Enlightenment Human Knowledge Life Purity Reality Religion Science Yourself
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
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Death Independence Live Nation
A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation’s future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.
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Assurance Myself Nation Place Print Right Youth