Hassan Nasrallah — 2006 "Divine Victory" rally speech, Beirut (post-July War) (English translation of Arabic)

This is not a Shi'i weapon [...] and the Christians. This weapon is for the Sunni, Druze, and Shi'i. This weapon is for all the Lebanese. It seeks to protect Lebanon, its sovereignty and independence.

The army and the Resistance are two dear, loving brothers that no one can separate.

Building a strong, just, and capable state begins first by a serious national unity government [...] Come and let us close our ranks and stand side by side to defend Lebanon, to protect Lebanon, to build and construct Lebanon, and to preserve Lebanon and unify it.

We do not say that these weapons will remain forever. And, it is not logical for these weapons to remain forever. There is bound to be an end to them.

This resistance experience [...] depends — on the moral and spiritual level — on faith, certainty, reliance [on God], and readiness to make sacrifices. It also depends on reason, planning, organization, armament [...].

We are neither a disorganized and sophistic resistance, nor a resistance pulled to the ground [...]. The pious, God-reliant, loving, and knowledgeable resistance is also the conscious, wise, trained, and equipped resistance that has plans.