The Turkish Nation consists of the valiant descendants of a people that has lived independently and has considered independence the sole condition of existence.

Rights are protected not by law but by the social and moral conscience of society.

Independence means that the Turkish nation will live as an honorable nation. That is the basis for everything.

Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

We rejoice especially in the prosperity, the stability and the independence of all of the American Republics.

There can be no stability or peace either within nations or between nations except under laws and moral standards adhered to by all.