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We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength 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.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
- Courage
- Patriotism
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London (10 November 1942)
- Hope
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is 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 survival.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons on becoming Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“Beyond Vietnam”, Riverside Church, New York (4 April 1967)
- Money
- Race
Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph1840–1904I Will Fight No More Forever (1877)
I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (19 April 1951)
- Age
I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!
George W. Bushborn 1946The Bullhorn Speech (2001)
- America
My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.
Neville Chamberlain1869–1940Remarks at 10 Downing Street on his return from Munich (30 September 1938)
It is according to the dictates of time and fate that We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable.
Hirohito1901–1989Broadcast announcing Japan’s surrender (15 August 1945), official English translation
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.
George C. Marshall1880–1959The Marshall Plan Speech (1947)
- Government
It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
George C. Marshall1880–1959The Marshall Plan Speech (1947)
- Economics
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Religion
History has called America and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility and our privilege to fight freedom’s fight.
George W. Bushborn 1946The Axis of Evil (2002)
- Freedom
I urge you to beware the temptation of pride⁠—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Good & Evil
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is⁠—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Courage