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He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

Citizenship Greedy Myself Order
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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Learning People Principle Superstition Teaching
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
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
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Face Myself Necessary Understand
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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Citizenship Heart Meet Nation Place Point World
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
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Authority Condition Nation Reservation
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
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
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Important Nation Religion Survive
I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
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Leadership Myself People Road Way Work
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
Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
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Infrastructure Justice Politics
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
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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Blood Friendship Hero Live Lost Peace Yourself
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
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
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