"I expect 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.... If we can stand up to [Hitler] all of 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. .. and all we have loved and cared for will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister and, perhaps, more protracted by the likes of perverted science. Let us so brace ourselves... to our duties so that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour." -- Winston S. Churchill, 1940, spoken on the day after the final surrender of France to the forces of the Third Reich
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:25:59 +0000
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