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NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER
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05.10.1938 A Total and Unmitigated Defeat
03.09.1939 War Speech
01.10.1939 The Russian Enigma
20.01.1940 A House of Many Mansions
13.05.1940 Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
19.05.1940 Be ye men of Valour
04.06.1940 We Shall Fight on the Beaches
18.06.1940 Their Finest Hour
14.07.1940 The War of the Unknown Warriors
20.08.1940
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11.09.1940 To the people of Czechoslovakia
21.10.1940 Dieu protege la France
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27.04.1941 Westward, Look, the Land is Bright
14.07.1941
You Do Your Worst -- And We Will Do Our Best
09.09.1941 Still Captain of our Souls
29.10.1941 Never give in, Never, Never, Never
26.12.1941 A Long And Hard War
29.01.1942 Речь в Палате общин
10.11.1942 The End of the Beginning
06.09.1943
The Price of Greatness is Responsibility
06.06.1944 The invasion of France
17.04.1945 The Greatest Champion of Freedom
08.05.1945 The End of  the War in Europe
08.05.1945 This is your Victory
08.05.1945 To V-E Day Crowds
13.05.1945 Forward, Till the Whole Task is Done
16.08.1945 Why Should We Fear for our Future?
05.03.1946 Sinews of Peace
19.09.1946 Something to astonish you!
07.05.1948 The Congress of Europe
30.11.1954 This Superb Honour
09.04.1963 На дарование почетного гражданства США
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October 29, 1941
Harrow School

 

When Churchill visited Harrow on October 29 to hear the traditional songs again, he discovered that an additional verse had been added to one of them. It ran:

"Not less we praise in darker days
The leader of our nation,
And Churchill's name shall win acclaim
From each new generation.
For you have power in danger's hour
Our freedom to defend, Sir!
Though long the fight we know that right
Will triumph in the end, Sir!"

Almost a year has passed since I came down here at your Head Master's kind invitation in order to cheer myself and cheer the hearts of a few of my friends by singing some of our own songs. The ten months that have passed have seen very terrible catastrophic events in the world - ups and downs, misfortunes - but can anyone sitting here this afternoon, this October afternoon, not feel deeply thankful for what has happened in the time that has passed and for the very great improvement in the position of our country and of our home? Why, when I was here last time we were quite alone, desperately alone, and we had been so for five or six months. We were poorly armed. We are not so poorly armed today; but then we were very poorly armed. We had the unmeasured menace of the enemy and their air attack still beating upon us, and you yourselves had had experience of this attack; and I expect you are beginning to feel impatient that there has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up!

But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. It is generally said that the British are often better at the last. They do not expect to move from crisis to crisis; they do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war; but when they very slowly make up their minds that the thing has to be done and the job put through and finished, then, even if it takes months - if it takes years - they do it.

Another lesson I think we may take, just throwing our minds back to our meeting here ten months ago and now, is that appearances are often very deceptive, and as Kipling well says, we must

"Émeet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same."

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period - I am addressing myself to the School - surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated.

Very different is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.

You sang here a verse of a School Song: you sang that extra verse written in my honour, which I was very greatly complimented by and which you have repeated today. But there is one word in it I want to alter - I wanted to do so last year, but I did not venture to. It is the line -

"Not less we praise in darker days."

I have obtained the Head Master's permission to alter darker to sterner.

"Not less we praise in sterner days."
Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.  
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