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excerpt of one of Churhill's speeches:
"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail."
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
An interesting tidbit courtesy of an Amazon.com reviewer of a book titled "The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill" named J. Guild:
One of Churchill's most famous speeches is that of June 1940: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills..." It is said that, as he paused in the great uproar that greeted these words, Churchill muttered to a colleague next to him, 'And We'll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got! To wit...
Though the going may get rough, we'll never give in, we'll never give up and we'll never give out! In the end, truth and enlightenment will win (I believe... but if we don't stop this thing before it goes too much farther, it may be a long struggle indeed...).
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