Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

. . . You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Never give up. Never, never give up! We shall go on to the end.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France , we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. 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. . . . And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in God's own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.