Vanity - Churchill: "Their Finest Hour" and Other Great Speeches

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[ConorMacNessa]

The words of this speech have resonated with me since the first time I heard them over a half-century ago. They are most relevant at this crucial time in our History, when all of the manifest Evil of totalitarianism is unleashed upon us. And look at our putative "leaders!" They are nothing more than a cadre of appeasers, Quislings, and apparatchiks!

You may well differ with me – I say God bless Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Trey Gowdy and others of their ilk! They stand for America as I have stood and most here have stood! It is indeed time for a change – a change back to the values and morals that have made this Nation great and preserved it through two and a half centuries of adversity!

I want my country back, and I mean to have it back!

Godspeed our valiant Military and God Bless the United States of America!

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS!


Sir Winston S. Churchill
KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA
(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965)



Rule Britannia
HM Royal Marines
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"WHAT GENERAL WEYGAND has 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. 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."

In the House of Commons, 16 June 1940


"With Mind And Hand"



Coronet Winston S. Churchill
4th Queen's Own Hussars
1895

[rlmorel]

As great as that line is, I think this line is the more powerful and appropriate one, that sets the stage of that time (and this one as well):

"...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..."

[gattaca]

bump

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

That was quite a trip. I also did not know that there was a “Churchill” museum. I shall remember your directions and if I ever get up that way I shall be sure to stop and see it. Thank you! ;-)

[rlmorel]

LOL, it was a surprise to me too, and a pleasant one.