„We are blessed with a great people, people who at every critical moment of choosing have put the interests of the country above their own.“
— Mitt Romney American businessman and politician 1947
2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
„We are called here at a critical moment of our country.“
Opening address to the Great Council of Chiefs meeting, 27 July 2005 (excerpts)
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„This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country. I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy: — pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own, - and joy that we can loudly proclaim from the rooftops — free at last!“
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
„We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.“
— William Wallace Scottish landowner and leader in the Wars for Scottish Independence 1270 - 1305
Statement before the Battle of Stirling Bridge (11 September 1297), as quoted in History of Scotland (1841) by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 121
Контексте: We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.
„It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.“
— Arun Jaitley Indian politician 1952 - 2019
On the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, as quoted in " India protests swell as anti-graft activist fasts http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE77G0O720110817?sp=true", Reuters (17 August 2011)
„They call us terrorists after they ruined our countries.“
— Immortal Technique American rapper and activist 1978
Death March
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)
„And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2011, Tucson Memorial Address (January 2011)
Контексте: If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
„Friends and fellow citizens, the story of our presence here is soon and easily told. We are here in the District of Columbia, here in the city of Washington, the most luminous point of American territory; a city recently transformed and made beautiful in its body and in its spirit; we are here in the place where the ablest and best men of the country are sent to devise the policy, enact the laws, and shape the destiny of the Republic; we are here, with the stately pillars and majestic dome of the Capitol of the nation looking down upon us; we are here, with the broad earth freshly adorned with the foliage and flowers of spring for our church, and all races, colors, and conditions of men for our congregation — in a word, we are here to express, as best we may, by appropriate forms and ceremonies, our grateful sense of the vast, high, and preeminent services rendered to ourselves, to our race, to our country, and to the whole world by Abraham Lincoln.“
— Frederick Douglass American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818 - 1895
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
„We can't stop here, this is bat country!“
— Hunter S. Thompson, книга Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Источник: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
„What if this right now is our last time? Our last moment to do something for our families, and our country? Did we live up to the values we say we believe? Did we do all we really could?“
— Ted Cruz American politician 1970
2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)
„Reconciliation between our communities, following all the hurt and distress of 2000, is a critical part of the reconstruction of the country.“
— Laisenia Qarase Prime Minister of Fiji 1941
Excerpts from an address to the Commonwealth Workshop in Nadi, 29 August 2005
„Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free!
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 40.
„It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for the country in return.“
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. United States Supreme Court justice 1841 - 1935
1880s, In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire (1884)
„[I]t's not by chance that Russia and the U. S. forge alliances in the most critical moments of modern history. That was the case in WWI and WWII. Even if there was fierce confrontation, our countries united against a common threat, which means there's something that unites us. There must be some fundamental interest which brings us together. That's something we need to focus on first. We need to be aware of our differences but focus on a positive agenda that can improve our cooperation.“
— Vladimir Putin President of Russia, former Prime Minister 1952
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oIF-ggK5U
2011 - 2015
„We are deeply concerned, both in our country and here, of the very large number of dropouts by schoolchildren. This is a very disturbing situation, because the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow“
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
Speech, Madison Park High School, Boston, 23 June 1990; Partly cited in Remembering Nelson Mandela's Visit To Roxbury http://wgbhnews.org/post/remembering-nelson-mandelas-visit-roxbury at wgbhnews.org, December 5, 2013; and partly cited in " Nelson Mandela’s 1990 visit left lasting impression http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/07/mandela-visit-boston-high-school-left-lasting-impression/2xZ1QqkVMTbHKXiFEJynTO/story.html" by Peter Schworm on bostonglobe.com, December 7, 2013
1990s
Контексте: We are deeply concerned, both in our country and here, of the very large number of dropouts by schoolchildren. This is a very disturbing situation, because the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow... try as much as possible to remain in school, because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use.
„It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here.“
— Jakaya Kikwete Tanzanian politician and president 1950
September 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4241916.stm
2005
„We have here no traditions and ancient venerable institutions; here, there are no aristocratic elements hallowed by time or bright deeds; here, every man is the first settler of the land, or removed from the settler one or two generations at the furthest; here, we have no architectural monuments calling up old associations; here, we have none of these old popular legends and stories which, in other countries, have exercised a powerful share in the government; here every man is the son of his own works.“
— Thomas D'Arcy McGee Canadian politician 1825 - 1868
Hear, hear.
Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865
„Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not all European countries.“
— Mark Steyn Canadian writer 1959
It's the Demography, Stupid (2006)
„We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. … We are here, and here we are likely to be.“
— Frederick Douglass American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818 - 1895
Essay in North Star (November 1858); as quoted in Faces at the Bottom of the Well : The Permanence of Racism (1992) by Derrick Bell, p. 40
1850s
Контексте: We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. … We are here, and here we are likely to be. To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed, assimilated, but never extinguished. We repeat, therefore, that we are here; and that this is our country; and the question for the philosophers and statesmen of the land ought to be, What principles should dictate the policy of the action toward us? We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations.
„If anyone asks me who was responsible for the British policy leading up to the war, I should, as a Labour man myself, make a confession and say: "All of us". We refused absolutely to face the facts. When the issue came of arming or rearming millions of people in this country… we refused to face the real issue at a critical moment. But what is the good of blaming anybody? We cannot make our action retrospective whatever we do. We have to start from now and try to do the best we can.“
— Ernest Bevin British labour leader, politician, and statesman 1881 - 1951
Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 373, col. 1362.
Speech in the House of Commons, 29 July 1941.