Darkest Hour | Churchill's Triumphant Speech: "We Shall Never Surrender!"
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With Nazi Germany pushing its way through France, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is poised to give ...
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turning once again to the question of invasion i would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion could have been given to our people but i have myself full confidence that if all do their duty if nothing it's neglected and the best arrangements are made as they are being made we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home to ride out the storm of war and you want to live the menace of tyranny if necessary for years if
necessary alone anyway that is what we are going to try to do that is the result of his majesty's government every now and then that is the will of parliament and the nation the british empire and the french republic linked together in their cause and in their need to the upmost of their streak even though large checks of europe and many old and famous states have have fallen or may fall into the the grip of the gestapo and all the odious apparatus of the nazi rule we shall not flag or fail we shall go on
to the end we shall fight in france we shall fight harmless seas and oceans we shall fight with with growing confidence and going straight 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 which i i do not for a moment leave this island or large part of it where we're subjugated and starving then our empire beyond the seas are and
guarded by the british fleet but 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 the liberation of the old oh changed your mind those who never change their minds never change anything what just happened immobilized the english language and centered into battle you