"Atatürk’s aim was not imitation but participation in a universal civilization, which, like the thinkers of the European Enlightenment, he saw as the onward march of humanity, regardless of religion and the divisions it caused. He believed that the struggle for genuine independence should be waged by each nation for itself in the name of an overarching secular ideal of progress common to all, and therefore leaving no room for antagonism towards the most advanced nations. He was an anti-imperialist only in the sense that his ideal was a universal commonwealth of civilized people. Above all, he was a builder, the greatest nation-builder of modern times" - Andrew Mango
"The centuries rarely produce a genius. It is our bad luck that the great genius of our era was granted to the Turkish nation" - David Lloyd George
"Atatürk was one of the greatest statesman of everyone who has lived and died throughout history...He would act beyond himself by seeing 20-30 years into the future" - Lord Kinross
"It is without a doubt that another example can’t be shown indicating greater successes than the birth of the Turkish Republic and ever since then Atatürk’s and Turkey’s broad and deep reforms undertaken as well as the confidence of a nation in itself" - John F. Kennedy
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