To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKHeroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
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Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
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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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Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
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In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
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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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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
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Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
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My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
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Science is the most reliable guide in life.
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Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
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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.
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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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This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
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Nations which don’t find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
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Our true mentor in life is science.
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Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.
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Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
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The supreme guide in life is knowledge.
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Freedom and independence form my character.
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Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
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The future is in the skies.
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Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.
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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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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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On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.
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