“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.”

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder
and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents.
What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”