Success Quote by Mikhail Saakashvili

Saakashvili’s line is built like a bridge and a dare: it yokes national destiny to personal obligation, then turns that linkage into a demand for action. “We must create” is the key tell. It rejects the comforting fiction that Georgia’s future will simply “return” to some rightful state; it has to be made, willed, fought for. In a region where history is often treated as fate, the verb “create” is a quietly radical choice.

The double dream - “our ancestors” and “we” - is doing heavy political work. It wraps reform in inheritance, implying that modernization isn’t betrayal but fulfillment. That’s a shrewd move for a leader associated with disruption: anti-corruption crackdowns, institutional overhauls, a hard pivot toward Europe, and a combative stance toward Russia. By invoking ancestors, he borrows moral authority from the dead to steady the living, trying to preempt the critique that rapid change is foreign or elitist.

There’s also a strategic ambiguity in “Georgia.” It’s not just territory; it’s a state of governance, a civic identity, an economy, a place where law functions and humiliation recedes. The line flatters without pandering: it assumes Georgians have both memory and agency. The subtext is that the old Georgia - fractured, captured by patronage, vulnerable to imperial pressure - is not the one anyone should accept, even if it’s familiar.

In context, it reads as nation-branding with teeth: a rallying cry aimed at turning post-Soviet frustration into a forward-looking project, while quietly insisting that the cost of dreaming is responsibility.