„There is no defense line, but defense territory. This territory is the whole of the motherland!“
His order to the Turkish army at the Battle of Sakarya (26 August 1921); Turkish, as quoted in Bugünkü Türkiye (1937), by Stephan Ronart, p. 127
Variant translation: There is no defense line, but a defense territory, and that territory is the whole of the motherland. Not even an inch of the motherland may be abandoned without being soaked in the blood of her citizens...
English translation, as quoted in History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (1976) by Stanford Jay Shaw
Original: (tr) Hattı müdafaa yoktur, sathı müdafaa vardır. O satıh bütün vatandır.
Original
Hattı müdafaa yoktur, sathı müdafaa vardır. O satıh bütün vatandır.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk17
fondateur et le premier président de la République turque 1881 - 1938Citations similaires
— Norman Angell British politician 1872 - 1967
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Contexte: Now, please don't misunderstand me. When I point out that all our wars for a thousand years have been fought in other people's countries, I do not mean that any of these wars was necessarily aggressive. They may well have been, everyone of them, defensive. But plainly they were not defensive of soil, territory. Of what then were they defensive? They were defensive of the nation's interests, rights; interests which may well collide with the interests of other nations in any part of the world... Nations do so differ as to what their respective rights are and differ sincerely. And often the question, which of the two is right, is extremely difficult, as anyone who has attempted to disentangle rival territorial claims in the Balkans or elsewhere knows only too well.
— Benjamín Netanyahu Israeli prime minister 1949
Press conference http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-finally-speaks-his-mind/.
2010s, 2014
— Ayn Rand, livre The Romantic Manifesto
Source: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 3 ("Art and Cognition")
— Warren Farrell, livre The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, Chapter 12.
— Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976
As quoted in Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 5: Toward the Second United Front, January 1935-July 1937: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49 https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=USEvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT861 (2017), p. 861, Routledge.
„The real city is the whole territory within which people move every day.“
— Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis Greek architect 1914 - 1975
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 1, Ecumenopolis, p. 15
— Robert Anton Wilson, livre Prometheus Rising
Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 4 : The Anal Emotional Territiorial Circuit, p. 68
— Catharine A. MacKinnon American feminist and legal activist 1946
"Postmodernism and Human Rights" (2000), p. 54
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
— Viktor Orbán Hungarian politician, chairman of Fidesz 1963
Budapest speech http://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-minister/the-prime-minister-s-speeches/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-on-15-march, 15 March 2016
— Alexander Ovechkin Russian ice hockey player 1985
Zdeno Chara, interview in Rich Thompson (January 4, 2008) "Chara keeps star under wraps", Boston Herald.
About
— Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953
Russian: Чужой земли мы не хотим ни пяди, но и своей вершка ни отдадим.
Political Report of the C.C. to XVI Party Congress (29 June 1930) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/SC30.html
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 40.
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 308
— Lee Kuan Yew First Prime Minister of Singapore 1923 - 2015
August 9, 1965, when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, as quoted in The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance, Terence Chong
1960s
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)
Contexte: A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." It is of the first importance to duly consider and estimate this ever-enduring part.