Be Ye Men Of Valour

It's Winston Churchill's birthday today. And oh, how I long for this kind of talk not just from our leaders, but from our people. His first broadcast as PM.

And this little nugget while receiving an honorary degree at Harvard.

let me say how proud we ought to be, young and old alike, to live in this tremendous, thrilling, formative epoch in the human story, and how fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
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Let us rise to the full level of our duty and of our opportunity, and let us thank God for the spiritual rewards He has granted for all forms of valiant and faithful service.