Winston Churchill, ”This was Their Finest Hour,” June 18,1940

Two weeks after "we shall fight on the beaches," Churchill again spoke before the House of Commons. The Battle of France was lost, the miracle of Dunkirk was in the rearview mirror, and France was seeking an armistice with Germany. Churchill sounded the clarion call:

"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. 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....

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.'"

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