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 freed 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 that 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.
-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, June 18, 1940
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