Quote #22

I am not leaving a spiritual legacy of dogmas, unchangeable petrified directives. My spiritual legacy is science and reason. ... What I wanted to do and what I tried to achieve for the Turkish nation is quite evident. If those people who wish to follow me after I am gone take the reason and science as their guides they will be my true spiritual heirs.

More from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  1. Freedom and independence is my character.
  2. I do not want to be recorded in history as the man who bequeathed a tyranny.
  3. Educate youth. Give them the positive ideas of knowledge and science. You will succeed in getting the enlightenment of the future for them.
  4. I like a sports person being smart, fit and at the same time, having moral values.
  5. A nation which does not practice science, such a nation, one must admit has no place in the high road of civilization.
  6. If I had not become the president, I would have wanted to be the Minister of Education.
  7. A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
  8. In any case, it is necessary to be victorious in education activities. The real salvation of a nation can only be in this manner.

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