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.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKIt 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.
More Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
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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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Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
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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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Science is the most reliable guide in life.
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Freedom and independence form my character.
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Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.
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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.
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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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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
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The future is in the skies.
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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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Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
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Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
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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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