"All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in
a single word: Freedom; Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope."
-Sir Winston Churchill
"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over.
I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.
Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.
Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity
of our institutions and our Empire.
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life
of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States,
including all we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss
of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted,
by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves
that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,
men will still say, "This was their finest hour".
An excerpt from a speech made before the House of Commons
by Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill
June 18, 1940
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