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We shall fight on the beaches" was a speech delivered by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France ; the others are the " Blood, toil, tears and sweat " speech of 13 May ...
Churchill's speech lasted nearly fifty minutes, in which he first stated "Almost a year has passed since the war began, and it is natural for us, I think, to pause on our journey at this milestone and survey the dark, wide field" [9] going on to say that, so far, there had been many fewer casualties than at the same point in the First World War, stating that the war was not a "prodigious ...
[6] Churchill's line has been called a "direct quotation" from Roosevelt's speech. [7] Churchill, a man with an American mother and a keen soldier, was likely to have read works by Theodore Roosevelt, who was a widely published military historian; it is also possible he read the speech after being appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, a ...
The speech was delivered to the Commons at 3:49 pm, [7] and lasted 36 minutes. Churchill, as was his habit, made revisions to his 23-page typescript right up to and during the speech. The final passage of his typescript was laid out in blank verse format, which Churchill scholars consider reflective of the influence of the Psalms on his oratory ...
Hester then channeled legendary college basketball coach Jim Valvano's famous "never give up, don't ever give up" speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards only months before he died of cancer.
Winston Churchill's first address to the U.S. Congress was a 30-minute World War II-era radio-broadcast speech made in the chamber of the United States Senate on December 26, 1941. The prime minister of the United Kingdom addressed a joint meeting of the bicameral legislature of the United States about the state of the UK–U.S. alliance and ...
Be Ye Men of Valour was a wartime speech made in a BBC broadcast on 19 May 1940 by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill.It was his first speech to the nation as Prime Minister, and came nine days after his appointment, during the Battle of France in the second year of World War II.
Never comfortable with American-style conservatism, European political elites have been undermining their standing with the American right and the Republican Party since the days of George W. Bush.