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 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.'
Winston Churchill
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