[AmericanVictory]

Yes, I too can still hear the words as he said them so long ago in that inimitable voice:

"That if the British empire should last for a thousand years, men would still say: `This was their finest hour.'"

[ConorMacNessa]

I remember it as well - he knew how to rally a people to their values, to their heritage, to what made them a great Nation.

We could use a guy like him now.

[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..."