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"God spoke liberty to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it." - Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American Politician
"Freedom is not retained by those who give few but by the few who give; it is not preserved by those who serve themselves but by those whoserve others; it is truly not the vain 'stars' who protect Freedom; it is saved by the heroes who ultimately give their all." - Anonymous
"To us is given the honor of striking a blow for Freedom which will live in history, and in the better days that lie ahead, men will speak with pride of our doings." - Sir Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) British Army Commander, World War II
"You cannot preserve liberties such as we enjoy, save by willingness to fight for them if need be." - Frank Knox (1874-1944) Secretary of the Navy
Though this speech was given more than sixty years ago, the words of Sir Winston Churchill continue to inspire us even today:
... surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, 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 stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated.
Very differnt is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.
You sang here a verse of a School Song; you sang that extra verse written in my honour, which I was very greatly complimented by and which you have repeated today. But there is one word in it I want to alter - I wanted to do so last year, but did not venture to. It is the line -
Nor less we praise in darker days.
I have obtained the Head Master's permission to alter "darker" to "sterner":
Nor less we praise in sterner days.
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Harrow School, England, October 29, 1941
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