For Your Freedom And Ours
For our freedom and yours ( pl, Za naszą i waszą wolność) is one of the unofficial mottos of Poland. It is commonly associated with the times when Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland (1795-1914), partitioned Poland, fought in various independence movements all over the world.Lonnie R. Johnson, ''Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends'', Oxford University Press, 1996, Google Print, p.127-128/ref>Hubert Zawadzki, Jerzy Lukowski, ''A Concise History of Poland'', Cambridge University Press, 2001, Google Print, p.145/ref> First seen during a patriotic demonstration to commemorate the Decembrists, held in Warsaw on January 25, 1831#Notes, 1, it was most probably authored by Joachim Lelewel. The initial banner has the inscription in both Polish and Russian, and was meant to underline that the victory of Decembrists would also have meant liberty for Poland. The slogan got shorter with time; the original had the form 'In the name of God, for our freedom and yours' ...
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