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

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

“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”

“Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.”

“There are two Mustafa Kemals. One the flesh-and-blood Mustafa Kemal who now stands before you and who will pass away. The other is you, all of you here who will go to the far corners of our land to spread the ideals which must be defended with your lives if necessary. I stand for the nation's dreams, and my life's work is to make them come true.”

“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.”

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