Nation Quotes

A safe army is better than a safe border.

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

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

I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

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.

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

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

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

Turkey's true master is the peasant.

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

The Turkish nation's character is noble. The Turkish nation is industrious. The Turkish nation is intelligent.

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

Education is the most important weapon to change the fate of a nation.

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

We have to be successful in national education affairs and we shall be. The liberation of a nation is only achieved through this way.