Winston Churchill - "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat"

Churchill, at the age of sixty-six, gave many speeches to Parliament as prime minister that concerned the grim realities that laid ahead:

May 13, 1940

• · “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat”
• · “What is our aim? 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 survivor”

May 19, 1940

• · “Side by side, the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue not only Europe but mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history”

June 4, 1940

• · “We shall fight in France; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.”
• · “We shall never surrender; and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.”

June 18, 1940

• · “If we can stand up to [Hitler], all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad sunlit upland.”
• · “All hearts go out to the fighter pilots whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes everyday”