In light of the liberal reaction to Bush’s inaugural, I found this passage in Nehru’s famous “tryst with destiny” speech interesting (I stumbled on it in a New Republic book review):

And so we have to labour and to work, and to work hard, to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace is said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.