Kenan Evren (1917–2015) Turkish general
An Uneasy Honeymoon, Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952783-2,00.html (Sep. 29, 1980) <br class="br">Said Evren in defense of the decision to take power after the 1980 military coup.
“Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.”
" Note on Dogma http://books.google.com/books?id=gcfPAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;Those+who+believe+that+they+are+exclusively+in+the+right+are+generally+those+who+achieve+something&quot;" <br class="br">Proper Studies (1927)
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