“Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.”

“I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal”

“Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.”

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

“I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.”

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

“The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.”

“The future is in the skies.”

“Peace at home, peace in the world.”

“Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.”

“Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.”