Winston Churchill on National security
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“I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.”
Facing imminent Nazi invasion, Winston Churchill invoked the biblical Maccabees' defiant call to arms in his first radio address as prime minister, galvanizing Britain's resolve.
“Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be."”