“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”

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.

Our true mentor in life is science.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.

The future is in the skies.

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.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

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.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Science is the only true guide in life.

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.

Peace at home, peace in the world.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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.

Control what you consume externally & reflect internally.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.