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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"”

“I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring”

“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.”

“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.”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”