Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?

I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride.

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.

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.

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