"My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscien…"

"[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years."

"He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap."

"The Turkish nation is industrious. Therefore, the Turkish nation is worthy of freedom."

"The Turkish nation is a nation of democracy."