SOME STATEMENTS OF ATATÜRK

-Happy is he who says, "I am a Turk".

- As they have come, so they will go.

- One day my mortal body will turn to dust, but the Turkish
Republic will stand forever.

- I have been able to teach many things to this nation, but I
haven't been able to teach how to be lackeys. 

- Peace at home, peace in the world.

- I am not ordering you to attack, I am ordering you to die.

- Turkey's true master is the peasant.

- Do not be afraid of telling the truth.

- To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To
understand my thoughts is to have seen me. 

- The Turkish Republic will be happy, prosperous and victorious. 

- A healthy mind in a healthy body. 

- Armies, your first goal is the Mediterranean. Forward !

- Our great ideal is to raise our nation to the highest standard
of civilization and prosperity. 

- Culture is the foundation of the Turkish Republic.

- Following the military triumph we accomplished by bayonets,
weapons and blood, we shall strive to win victories in such fields
as culture, scholarship, science and economics. 

- 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. 

- Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

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

- Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

- Teachers: the new generation will be your devotion.

- Our true mentor in life is science.

- The Turkish Nation consists of the valiant descendants of a
people that has lived independently and has considered
independence the sole condition of existence. This nation has
never lived without freedom, cannot and never will. 

- We Turks are a people who, throughout our history, have been the
very embodiment of freedom and independence. 

- Our nation has succeeded owing to the unshakable unity it has
shown in its actions and endeavours.