Welcoming and celebrating our country’s 104th and future anniversaries!

With love for our land, our Latvia, in our hearts, we can achieve the most unimaginable things. Everything we can imagine, everything we can wish for in the depths of our hearts, we can see come to pass. The future is in our hands, the fate of our land is in our hands.

(Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga)


...for there is nothing more absurd than the notion that by shouting 'Down with the army!' or 'Down with war!', the wisest, only possible, and most beneficial work for the sake of peace is being done.

Is it not true that lands and seas that no one wishes to defend will be taken by those who crave them and possess the will and strength to acquire them? Could our native land, with its fertility and advantageous ports, be a treasure that would fail to tempt any foreign eye?

(General Mārtiņš Hartmanis)