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.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURKI 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.
More Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
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Freedom and independence is my character.
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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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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
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After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
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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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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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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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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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In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
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Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
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Our true mentor in life is science.
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If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
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Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.
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A man who doesn’t think differently from his time and environment can’t grow beyond his time and environment.
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