In defeat: defiance.

In victory: magnanimity.

In peace: goodwill.

 

 

This is not the end, it is not

even the beginning of the end.

But it is, perhaps, the end

of the beginning.

 

 

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.'

 

 

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

 

 

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!

(Speech about Dunkirk given in House of Commons June 4, 1940.)

 

 

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

(Speech made in the House of Commons as the Battle of Britain peaked on August 20, 1940. The home front was totally involved in the war because of the German bombing raids and Britain was "a whole nation fighting and suffering together." But special gratitude was directed towards the airmen whose prowess and devotion were capable of turning the tide of the war.)

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

(In reference to the United States Marine Corps)