- May 22, 2020
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Royal Address by His Majesty King Stanislaus Grabowski
From the Throne Room of Warsaw
Citizens of Poland, brothers and sisters in liberty, and friends of our Kingdom across the world,From the Throne Room of Warsaw
Tonight, I stand before you not just as your leader, but as one of you—a proud son of this land, bound by the same hopes and fears, victories and losses. The story of Poland is not written in the pages of books alone. It is carved into our hearts, born in the sweat of our brows, in the labor of our ancestors who knew the harshest of times.
We stand at a crossroads. The world beyond our borders trembles. A global recession sweeps across nations, leaving them in its wake like a fierce frost. Even those once considered invincible—great powers like Russia, drowning in debt, and India, strained by its own burdens—now falter, their knees trembling under the weight of their own mistakes.
But Poland... Poland is different.
Look at us now. Our coffers remain full. Our industries hum with the heartbeat of progress. Our streets are alive with the sounds of commerce, creativity, and innovation. Our scientists push the boundaries of human knowledge, and our children are learning not to despair, but to dream, to discover, to build. While others crumble under the weight of their own folly, we rise, resilient and determined.
But this wasn’t given to us by chance. We didn’t inherit it from the hands of fate. It was earned—by farmers tilling the soil, by laborers building our future, by soldiers defending our homes, by mothers nurturing our families, and by educators inspiring minds. It was earned by every person who chose to work, to fight, to believe in something greater than themselves. Poland’s strength comes not from what we receive, but from what we give.
We did not bow to the false promises of socialism. We did not submit to the chains of communism. These ideologies, these poisonously sweet dreams, led only to bloodshed, to suffering, to oppression. Let me be clear: Poland is, and will remain, the enemy of all tyranny, of all ideologies that steal the soul of the individual and turn men into tools of the state.
I think of the days when Marx’s hollow promises of utopia led to nothing but blood-stained streets. I think of Lenin’s terror, when the noble worker was reduced to mere cannon fodder. I think of Stalin’s madness, when millions perished in forced famine and in gulags while Poland endured under the suffocating weight of Soviet oppression.
We remember it all—the lies, the suffering, the broken promises. And we refuse to ever let it happen again. We will never allow those red banners to fly over our white eagle again.
But our struggle is not just a relic of the past. It’s not only a battle fought with guns and bombs, but also with ideas. The rising tide of extremism is a threat that takes many forms. Whether it’s the violence of terrorism, the hidden menace of anarchist militias in cyberspace, or the soft tyranny of cancel culture disguised as progressivism, Poland stands firm. To these threats, we say: No more.
We will hunt down terrorism wherever it hides—in the back alleys of failed states or in the encrypted shadows of cyber warfare. We will not negotiate with terror. We will eliminate it. This is not cruelty. This is justice, plain and simple. For our children deserve peace, our faith demands it, and our ancestors demand that we defend the world they died to preserve.
And to the youth of Poland—those standing at the threshold of tomorrow with one hand on the history of our past and the other on the door of our future—I say this: You are already noble. You need only prove it.
The new nobility of Poland will not come from bloodlines. It will come from those who serve, who innovate, who lead with courage and creativity. It will come from engineers, doctors, artists, teachers, and thinkers. It will come from those who, through their actions, elevate our Kingdom. Titles, I say, will not be inherited; they will be earned.
We are entering a new age—an age of strength, of discovery, of innovation. In the sciences, we will lead. In the arts, we will shine. And in faith, we will remain unshaken.
For we are a Catholic people—not ruled by the Church, but strengthened by its truth. Christ is not a relic here—He is the fire that burns in our hearts, and His light will never dim.
As President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said:
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
Poland understands this deeply. We do not stand because we are unafraid; we stand because we know that there are things greater than fear. Greater is our duty to our children. Greater is our devotion to our faith. And greatest of all is our love for this Kingdom, for this land.
That is why we choose courage. That is why we endure. That is why we rise.
And so, my beloved countrymen,
As we look to the horizon of a new age, let us never forget who we are.
Our ancestors stood in the shattered ruins of Warsaw—bloodied, battered, but unbowed—and whispered with sacred defiance: “Poland is not yet lost.”
They whispered it beneath falling bombs. They whispered it through hunger, ash, and fire. They whispered it when the world turned cold—but God heard them.
And they were right.
Because Poland did not fall. She rose, as she always has—like a phoenix from the ashes, like the hussars who charged beneath heaven’s gaze to shatter the siege of Vienna and cast back the darkness threatening Europe. We were the sword and shield of Christendom then—and we are still its defenders now.
Tonight, we do not whisper. We do not stand in silence. We stand as a legion of light, of courage, and of conviction.
Poland is not yet lost.
Poland is rising.
Poland is eternal.
Let our enemies hear it.
Let our children inherit it.
Let all the nations of the Earth remember it:
We are the flame they could not extinguish.
We are the voice they could not silence.
We are Poland—forever free, forever faithful.
God bless you all. God bless our children. And God bless the Kingdom of Poland.
