Celebrating Hungarians, on this side of the border and beyond! Hungarians celebrating without borders!
The idea of Hungarian freedom has swirled in the skies of time and history for centuries. Its origins stretch back a thousand years, and surely it will continue to exist for thousands more. The idea of Hungarian freedom is eternal and timeless. Yet, 177 years ago, it became bound to a single date—the Ides of March—and a single place—Pest-Buda. On that day, Hungarian freedom took form, gained shape, and came down among us. March 15 is not just an ordinary celebration for us, not even merely historical—it is a sacred moment. March 15 is a day for every generation of Hungarians. It is forever marked and unavoidable, and this will remain true as long as there is a single Hungarian living on Earth. With the perpetually exaggerated, but innocent confidence of youth, Petofi declared: 'Our grandfathers and fathers, in a hundred years, did not achieve as much as we did in twenty-four hours.' Glory to the young revolutionaries of March!

Every year, before life sprouts anew, before the trees bud, before the crops emerge, and before civic life stirs, at precisely that moment, we Hungarians must gather for an important assembly. That is why we are here today. Before we become absorbed in the joyous coming of spring, we must remind each other of a few things that Hungarians can only speak of with due seriousness. We must remind ourselves of our shared national mission. And we must remind ourselves of the paramount cause of our homeland, which demands our support and service. Then, for another year, until our next reckoning, everyone may return to their own affairs.
For years, we have hearing that we are the past. They said it back in 1848 as well: the future belongs to the grand Austrian Empire. They said it in 1956 too: the future belongs to the red Soviet Empire. They say it now again: the future belongs to the rainbow-colored global empire. They told us we are the past. But on the other side of the Atlantic, a shift has occurred, and it turns out that we are in fact the future. It turns out that the future does not belong to empires but to patriots and independent nations. They also claimed we were isolated. They said that in 1848 too, yet all of Europe resounded with the voice of Hungarians, and even in Vienna, a citizen from Buda led the rebel forces. They said it in 1956 as well, but in the end, it was we Hungarians who knocked out the first brick of the Berlin Wall, bringing freedom to all of Europe. And they say it now too—we are isolated—yet today, the whole world is watching us. Why is half the world interested in us? It is certainly not because of the size of our economy or the firepower of our army. What do we have that they in the West lack, yet desperately need? Szechenyi taught us that every nation has its own mission, its essence, its defining element. For some nations that defining element is commerce, some are defined by conquest; some by philosophy, others by art, and some by science. But what is it that makes Hungarian blood surge through our veins, that makes our hearts beat, that defines us as Hungarians? Freedom, dear friends! The defining element of Hungarians is freedom.
A Hungarian is in his element when he fights for his freedom.
We are freedom fighters. We know how to win our freedom. We know how to defend our freedom. This knowledge is ours. We have been cultivating it for a thousand years. It is our trademark—indeed, in our DNA. And this is precisely what the world needs today, more than ever. Once again, we have stood our ground against a global empire. Only we have managed to achieved this. This is our great secret—the alchemy of the modern age. That is why half the world, from Vienna to Washington, is coming to us.