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.

I am not ordering you to attack; I am ordering you to die.

God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.

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