Gamal Abdel Nasser (President of Egypt) — Suez Canal nationalization speech, Manshiya Square, Alexandria, 26 July 1956 (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Nasser archive): laying "the foundation of glory, freedom and dignity," resisting "imperialism and the agents of imperialism," and a call to "together establish Arab nationalism... and Arab unity."

النهارده وجدنا الفرصة ووضعنا أساس العزة، ووضعنا أساس الحرية، ووضعنا أساس الكرامة.

سنتجه قدماً إلى الأمام، نؤيد الحرية ونؤيد التحرير، نقاوم الاستعمار وأعوان الاستعمار.

ولنرسى سوياً القومية العربية، ولنرسى سوياً الوحدة العربية.

[Source is Arabic (windows-1256-encoded) from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's official Gamal Abdel Nasser digital archive (nasser.bibalex.org) — the authoritative tier-1 record of his speeches; passages confirmed character-for-character against the decoded page.] English: — "Today we found the opportunity and laid the foundation of glory, the foundation of freedom, and the foundation of dignity." — "We will move forward, supporting freedom and supporting liberation, resisting imperialism and the agents of imperialism." — "And let us together establish Arab nationalism, and let us together establish Arab unity." CONTEXT: Declared positions of Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt (1954–1970) and the towering figure of 20th-century Arab politics. From his landmark speech at Manshiya Square, Alexandria, on 26 July 1956, announcing the NATIONALIZATION of the Suez Canal Company — delivered after the United States, Britain and the World Bank withdrew financing for the Aswan High Dam. The speech crystallizes Nasserism, a foundational template of secular Arab politics: ARAB NATIONALISM (qawmiyya) and ARAB UNITY, anti-imperialism / anti-colonialism (resisting "imperialism and its agents"), national sovereignty (elsewhere in the speech: "there shall be no sovereignty in Egypt except for the people of Egypt"), dignity (karama), and Egyptian/Arab self-determination — the ideological wellspring that Baathism, Nasserism and the broader secular-nationalist current across the dataset draw on (and against which the Islamist current later defined itself). [Axes: regional-stance (Pan-Arabism / Arab unity), west-alignment (anti-imperialism / anti-colonialism / non-alignment), regime-stance (national sovereignty; the developmental nationalist state), economic (Arab socialism / state-led nationalization). Historical foundational anchor.]