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times bathed in the light of our “law of laws”
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. To the world at
large, it has regained its status as a great nation whose history is
essential to an understanding of the history of mankind.
For these reasons, on what is such an important day for
me, I wish to spare a thought, and express my deep gratitude,
to those who made our Carta Magna a reality, to those who
applied and implemented it with such faith and sacrifice; to
those who inherited a society torn apart by war and then had the nobility of spirit and the heroic
generosity needed to turn the Spains that chilled the heart of the great poet into the democratic
Spain that we live in. They all contributed intelligently and generously to the precious, noble task
of reconciliation. With the same emotions, I also recall the victims of intolerance and terrorism,
who gave their lives defending their freedom and the freedom of all.
This Foundation was born of this spirit of concord, and with it, the marvellous adventure of its
Awards. It is an adventure that we renew each year, one that is all the more precious for having its
origins in Asturias, these lands of mountain peaks that tower as loftily as the flight of the spirit of
Asturias.
Thank you.
1 The Spanish Constitution.
“Where love of culture dwells, the
chains of ignorance, darkness and
fear are forever broken.”
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