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"Hitler knows, that he would have to break us in this island or lose the war", I don't understand how Churchill was able to walk carrying those big balls. It hasn't been a thousand years yet, I'm just in 2020, but I can definitely say: that was their finest hour indeed

@TheYanbibiya

3 жыл бұрын

Yes he did Henderson. When he couldn't get air superiority and knew were not yet capable of attacking he turned his attention to Russisa. He thought Britain would be very easy but when he realised he'd have to commit he went after the bigger fish.

@dennis7511

3 жыл бұрын

I fear that we, Britain, and what is currently the free world are now fast approaching a time of peril that we must stand up to and make, for ourselves and history, our own "finest hour."

@roberthudson1959

3 жыл бұрын

@James Henderson That isn't true. He hadn't expected to invade the UK because he thought that the conquest of France would end the war in Europe, but Operation Sea Lion was organized when that assumption proved false. Executing Sea Lion while planning Barbarossa wouldn't have been that unusual. There were numerous times during the war that the Allies fought one battle while planning the next.

@guillermohoffmann8417

3 жыл бұрын

"the world will sink into the abyss of a new dark Age."........Now 2020 covid-19....... mr Churchill Hold my scotch mate

@gutsjoestar7450

3 жыл бұрын

the british empire will last a thousand year

"If necessary, for years. If necessary, alone" those chills man... What an incredible man he was.

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

Alex Ryl he was rubbish sold this country to his mothers country the worst thing that ever happened to Britain

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

Alex Ryl he was a twat

@theroseexperience

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardgray6313 You're a twat, without Churchill Britain would have been rubble and Europe may have fell to the Nazi regime.

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

Alex Ryl get a brain he sold Britain to the Americans not only that it was the Russians who won the war are you able to even think straight ???

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

The Rose Experience you are a nationalistic arsehole

People forget that Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature. The man had an amazing way with words. Some of his speeches are amongst the best things ever written in my opinion

@gibberconfirm425

2 жыл бұрын

Check out the scenes where he meets Stalin in "The Grand Alliance," so funny.

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

I TOTALLY AGREE

@Journeyman-Fixit

Жыл бұрын

Highly intelligent, what great leadership.

@roberthudson1959

7 ай бұрын

According to legend, Churchill's mastery of English was rooted in the belief of his public school instructors that young Winston was too stupid to learn Greek and Latin, so he studied English in depth.

@DS9TREK

6 ай бұрын

He was also the highest paid writer in the world in the 1930s. He was paid an advance of a million quid in today's money for the Marlborough diaries.

I am not British, only researching for my paper but this speech made me cry and inspired me and I have never felt more proud of a nation that I am not even from. All my love to all the British out there

@richardhumberstonept622

6 жыл бұрын

Veva13 🦁 🦁 🦁

@superluukiee

5 жыл бұрын

I am dutch and feel exactly the same

@robsan52

5 жыл бұрын

Veva13 Well said, I feel the same way.

@diedertspijkerboer

5 жыл бұрын

@@superluukiee same here. The whole of Western Europe owes an incredible debt to Britain for holding out against Hitler. Although much of Europe was liberater by Americans and Canadians, Britain's stand provided the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" without which D day would not even have been possible and without which the US might never even have decided to liberate Europe at all.

@superluukiee

5 жыл бұрын

@@diedertspijkerboer Exactly

I may be Scottish but will never be any less British. The lights of hope went out across the continent but Winston and all of us never surrendered and never will.

@JavierArveloCruzSantana

4 жыл бұрын

Amen! (From a Spanish-Italian born in Puerto Rico under the American flag!) May the All Mighty always protect those who really want to serve humanity, and not those who pretend to do so only to enslave it!

@vikalpguru4311

4 жыл бұрын

@@JavierArveloCruzSantana serve humanity.. Really? Churchill killed 4 million Indians, coz he diverted ration from India and stored food for troops stationed in Greece thus creating an artificial famine in India .. Only for the food stored to get destroyed eventually, coz it turns out, the troops didn't need them after all. Huh, saviour of mankind..

@ektasachdeva4370

4 жыл бұрын

@@vikalpguru4311 Totally agree with you.. Winston had his selfish reasons... wasn't serving the humanity.

@confusedbadger6275

4 жыл бұрын

He didn't work.in a fucking vacuum and wasnt a dictator of India. The famine was a result of more than one person. Churchill was given wrong information on how much food certain districts had. He was working off of faulty numbers. The man was no genius, Tobruk showed that but to say millions died purely down to one man is wrong and mainly pushed.by certain people with an agenda.

@vikalpguru4311

4 жыл бұрын

@@confusedbadger6275 it's like saying hitler didn't kill the Jews, his officers did. Churchill took all the decisions, so he will be blamed not some x, y, z.

80 years later, his words still inspire.

@Ermenasce

9 ай бұрын

You are spot right, and will inspire all generations forever

@equinoxesandra

8 ай бұрын

History is about to repeat

@thomaspense9915

18 күн бұрын

Their backs were to the wall. Most probably thought that was that, as reason should assume. Thank God for Winston!! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

As an American, Churchill's speech gives me the chills. He was probably the greatest leader of the 20th century.

@London1064

4 жыл бұрын

Lynn-Anne Spitzer: Thank you my friend. Greetings from England to our Cousins in America 👍🇬🇧👍🇺🇸👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

@BG-oj6zt

4 жыл бұрын

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@ptb2008

4 жыл бұрын

@@BG-oj6zt And? What's your point?

@BG-oj6zt

4 жыл бұрын

@@ptb2008 He was scumbag!!!

@richardgray6313

4 жыл бұрын

James Henderson hitler did not do that certainly not by design it was more that than Ghandi ji who did it by design you don’t need the glorify hitler he was a sick man with a gross ego problem

I have a portrait of Churchill over my study table with excerpts from this speech embossed on it. I have immense respect for him, with all his flaws; he was the right man for the right job at the right time.

@2Links

4 жыл бұрын

While I completely disagree with a lot of his political views, I can't not admire him as a politician, if nothing else.

@JACK-jd1tb

4 жыл бұрын

True,...end of.......

@user-qg2jm9te2t

4 жыл бұрын

The leader the world needed

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

Saagnik Banerjee I would have agreed with you if only the whole country did not agree with me that the whole mess of war was due to him and his ilk

@jackaubrey8614

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardgray6313 ".. if only the whole country did not agree with me that the whole mess of war was due to him and his ilk" - what are you on? Really. Why do sanctimonious morons like you always assume everyone else agrees with you? Is it how you justify your stupidity to yourself? Churchill spent most of the thirties warning of the rise of Nazism and as a result was in the political wilderness, yet stuck to his convictions. Explain how the whole mess of war was down to him?

Winston Churchhill will forever be a legend. The Battle of Britain was indeed their finest hour.

@cristianmicu

5 жыл бұрын

we owe freedom to this man

@ginger1974

4 жыл бұрын

He definitely wasn’t a good man or even a good leader for peace time but you cannot deny that he did a good job leading Britain through the war and it was the Brit’s finest hour. I don’t like the British and through most of history have a hatred towards them as I’m irish but if you deny they were not doing the best for humanity in world war 2 you are an ignorant and just hateful idiot who is unable to think rationally. An extra thing how was he a traitor?

@goastlyarrowplays

4 жыл бұрын

Christian van Laak you forget about the Sudetenland, kristallnachet, ,Ethiopia, and the treaty that brought Austria into Germany. Britain put down a monster that they created. If they hadn’t we would all be under nazi control.

@nancyhobson9710

4 жыл бұрын

Do we as humans have that same backbone now, that moral strength?

@davidverster9523

4 жыл бұрын

Beware...there are the enemies in E ngland...dark skinned immigrants..who want to destroy his legacy...calling him a war mongerer and a racist....Churchill detested the naplly dressed Ghandi...

I cry when I hear this and I'm not ashamed to say it makes me so so proud of my British heritage

@eFxAstro

Жыл бұрын

Shut up bro

@wolveneyeswolveneyes9099

Жыл бұрын

@@eFxAstro huh

@stephenthompson6982

11 ай бұрын

Burning with pride.

@jdk67

10 ай бұрын

Easily one of the greatest speeches of all time.

"I'm English and was Alive and Kicking in England, when this Speech was Given!"

@gazza2933

4 жыл бұрын

You were quite a generation Griffith. Thank you.

@jamesrobinson949

4 жыл бұрын

Please tell me more!!!!!

@292Nigel

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesrobinson949 So much for that request!!

@monikaazariah9237

3 жыл бұрын

The things you've seen Sir must've been quite amazing !!

@292Nigel

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesrobinson949 Still waiting?

As a Frenchman, I remember his speech after the collapse of our country. on the BBC. He said to hang on and never despair because after darkness, dawn will come. He had spoken in French and his speech gave a lot of hope to the occupied French. Like De Gaulle, Winston Churchill was a fighter who never agreed to surrender. Unfortunately, De Gaulle was not president of the French Republic at that time. Thanks to them. The great men of this stature are only one per century.

@harry793

4 жыл бұрын

You remember how old are you?

@Tark75ifty

4 жыл бұрын

@@harry793 I was not born in 1940, of course I am not that old. I meant to say that I remember a documentary that showed Sir W.Churchill speaking to the French after the collapse, and it touched me a lot.

@harry793

4 жыл бұрын

Tark Z I thought you meant coz of the way you worded it

@rosemunn2857

4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful sentiments. I was born in 49 and growing up in Canada we always remember this great courageous man who saved our world and gave us the freedom and great life we have experienced. l have always admired him and all the people who made it possible. Growing up in those times it was common to talk about the war and what it meant to humanity. I wish that today we had great and wise leaders as we had in the past. May God be with us and guide us all.

@292Nigel

3 жыл бұрын

A load of deliberately misleading nonsense. Lies masquerading as the truth, and it gets over 200 thumbs up. It's obvious that there's an agenda on this thread. So predictable!!

Always been proud to be Canadian and be a part of the British commonwealth. We answered the call without hesitation.

@jacksmalling4265

29 күн бұрын

🇨🇦 🇬🇧 ❤️

@jamesvoller167

22 күн бұрын

Just another white supremacist and colonialist.

@andrewwalker1496

13 күн бұрын

Sir!

As an American its a shame that America took so fuking long to get involved in the war its shameful that we let Her stand alone Never again God Bless Great Britain God bless Winston Churchill and God bless those amazing R.A.F pilots with more than 200 aces the royal air force will go down in history

@daveenyart

8 күн бұрын

Nice comment....but the profanity was inappropriate.

@JH-ck1nr

2 күн бұрын

True Brits know our real friends and allies overseas.

As an “Yank”, I actually believe that Winston Churchill is the greatest leader in the last two centuries.

Whoever defaced his statue should feel ashamed of themselves

@Bridgejones08

4 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@rocketman2485

3 жыл бұрын

"oh but he was a racist" yeah you should see the other guy

@ChristineFisher123

3 жыл бұрын

Hitler was the biggest racist. Not Sir Winston Churchill. These protesters have their priorities all wrong!

@292Nigel

3 жыл бұрын

On the contrary they regard him as a monster.

@razsul3877

3 жыл бұрын

No, because he is a war criminal.

Never will I have a bad word said against this man he pull us though the darkness hour and made us who we are and I thank him for that every day rest peace Winston

@dinerouk

4 жыл бұрын

Many have and indeed now in April 2020 are accusing him and teaching students about him as a war criminal!

@292Nigel

4 жыл бұрын

@@dinerouk You're right Peter. The problem is that it's difficult to convince so many modern day Brits how marvellous he was when they look around at the U.K. of today. As one of my students once said to me "we fight a war and millions die so we can keep out men that look like Hardy Kruger, then we let all this lot in" as he pointed to tables where blacks and Asians are seated. My own opinion (reluctantly) is that the subject of WW2 is best avoided. It needs to be airbrushed from history.

@ohnono9777

4 жыл бұрын

Well if you research how he and stalin split up so many lives and families on a tissue you will kinda have a different opinion

@292Nigel

4 жыл бұрын

@@ohnono9777 A tissue??

@razsul3877

3 жыл бұрын

WAR CRIMES, LEARN

He mobilized the English language, and sent it off to war.

@kathycaldwell7126

3 жыл бұрын

Great quote! I’m stealing it. Well done!

@nycto2622

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Boddy from the darkest hour!

@orion5470

3 жыл бұрын

Darkest hour. 👍🏼

@evolassunglasses4673

3 жыл бұрын

And destroying it.

There are none comparable to Sir Winston. For as long as the English language is spoken, the shadow of his greatness shall be cast across all generations to come.

I’m an American and I am overwhelmed with pride for the good people who stood up to tyranny In the British empire. This is so moving.... we are standing up to tyranny worldwide now....

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

I AGREE FROM FRANCE CHURCHILL AND DE GAULLE ARE MY HEROES

@markusParkus233

Жыл бұрын

Wait what? Oh

@ambulanza

Жыл бұрын

@@markusParkus233 yep, he is an american partisan. SInce the USA government is they tyrant of this age...

@davidfisher9026

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, your country is now the source of worldwide tyranny across the globe.

@rushpatriot2866

11 ай бұрын

I agree up until the "we are standing up to tyranny worldwide now" stop thinking so black and white and realize that propaganda is so deadly because people that are unaware are heavily affected by it without knowing. Learn about history and do actual research today drop the cognitive biases and you'll learn who the enemy of good is in modern day.

Churchill was such an amazing person. I honestly believe that if it were not for him, we would all be speaking German now.

@harry793

4 жыл бұрын

He boosted the morals of allied soldiers who went on to beat barmy hitler to his grave

@dinerouk

4 жыл бұрын

Very probable!

@2Links

4 жыл бұрын

While I certainly respect Churchill as a politician, I doubt Britain would have fallen without him and instead some other democratic leader. Hitler may have been a maniac, but both he and the OKW (Oberstkommando der Wehrmacht aka The German High command) knew that Operation Sealion was completely unrealistic. The Royal Navy could afford to take heavy losses in defence of their homeland, the Home Fleet was simply too large.

@roberthudson1959

4 жыл бұрын

Not likely. If the Germans couldn't pull off Operation SeaLion, an invasion of North America was unthinkable. Churchill himself recognized this at the end of the "We shall never surrender" speech.

@koba2209

4 жыл бұрын

The only way i see everybody speaking German now would be it Hitler got nukes first. U had half of ur post right tho. Churchill was special.

Right man for the right job at the right time

@dupeleo2914

2 жыл бұрын

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

We need a man like him now more than ever. ‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

Too bally right. I love a heart on sleeve speech that rallies everyone behind the leader. This was Churchill's finest hour!

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

YES YES YES

@Sgab1007

10 ай бұрын

How about a woman 😉

@Thefoilingguy

10 ай бұрын

@@Sgab1007 we had a woman, two of them in recent times, the last one made a right mess of it. But yes, if there is a woman out there then I’m all for it. Cometh the hour, cometh the person! 😂

@Sgab1007

10 ай бұрын

@@Thefoilingguy In all honesty, that says it all. The fact that there is such a small number of women to name who have been in power, speaks volumes.

I listen to this 80 years later and get goosebumps, the pride I feel for this man, my country, and our armed forces and veterans is beyond words.

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

AND TOMMY ROBINSON A TRUE TOMMY

Well we did stand up to tyranny; it was our Finest hour and although, at the time it seemed a forlorn hope, we, with the help of America and the Commonwealth countries, finally prevailed. I for one, am still proud that I lived through it all, and now in my 85th year, I still hold my head high. WE KEPT CALM AND CARRIED ON. We no longer have the power to influence the modern World, however it was worthwhile at the time.

@kennyrobinson2618

4 жыл бұрын

God Bless you Mr. Wilson. I am American, but have much respect for Mr. Churchill. I loved the movie made of him. The name of it was simply Churchill in case you have not seen it.

My father served in the U.S. Army and used to speak glowingly about Sir Winston Churchill. I am so glad to see these speeches available on KZread.

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

M E TOO THANK YOU

He was not a perfect man but he was always reaching for perfection,this makes him a rare person, one born every 1000 years.

@ahmetemregurdal501

Жыл бұрын

Well actually like one born every ten years for his age because there was a man called Mustafa Kemal Atatürk which born in 1881, churchill born in 1874 so there is only 7 years of a gap between these two great men's for the history. İ know that currently with the current situation of turkey you wouldn't agree with me but in 1930s turkey was a modern European nation unlike now and the only reason that turkey was a modern European nation was Atatürk. Without him there wouldn't be a turkey. There would be a tsarist regime in Russia without Atatürk defeating allies in Çanakkale strait which would mean İstanbul and warshaw would be occupied by Russia. So he was one of the greatest men in the history. And if you look at those thousand years between 874 and 1874 you will see a lot more great man for history

The greatest man of the 20th century. Deep shame on those that have defiled his statue.

@bloodfiredrake7259

Жыл бұрын

Good riddance. The man was a cunt and barely different from the Fascists he fought.

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

I AGREE FROM FRANCE CHURCHILL AND DE GAULLE ARE MY HEROES

@robertlangley1664

Жыл бұрын

Well we know what type of people do these things ,they would tear down every thing we are the RF the establishment and throw our history down the drain but I will fight them all the way they will never win

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

@@robertlangley1664 THANKS I AM SO SO ANGRY

I have read this speech many times over the years - but to hear Churchill speaking these words - it is so powerful. This was their finest hour. And we are blessed that recording during the war preserved his great speeches.

What a speech! This one, the one thanking the RAF, Dr. King's "I Have a Dream", JFK'S "Ask Not", RFK's speech at JFK's funeral and the "December 7, 1941..." speech... probably the greatest speeches ever and possibly ever will be.

@bawbremy

2 жыл бұрын

Gettysburg Address

@brucetucker4847

2 жыл бұрын

I'd add "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" (And Mr. Gorbachev eventually had no choice but to comply.) kzread.info/dash/bejne/eXeDm6SSc6q0lbw.html

@JC23WY

6 күн бұрын

And Bush Junior’s fish and humans co-existing peacefully together speech

This speech was composed without knowing the outcome of the Nazis invasion of France, The gravity and importance of these words is immeasurable.....

@ozygtdnz3553

4 жыл бұрын

Churchill probably knew what was eventually going to happen since French troops were already crushed by the Germans' blitzkrieg, they were completely swept out at this point

@SDOne-or6vm

4 жыл бұрын

"without knowing the outcome of the War of France" on June 18th"? You serious? omg 62 thumbs up for that statement

@gutworm686

4 жыл бұрын

Of course he knew the outcome. He says so in the speech. “The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin.”

@JimmiAlli

4 жыл бұрын

The poor old French provided no resistance whatsoever. Even Malta put up more of a fight.

@821marko

10 ай бұрын

​@JimmiAlli ...that's not true, french citizens, even teenagers, took the fight to the nazis, they were called the French Resistance...you should read a book called "Dadland" by Keggy Carew, it is a classified true story of the Jedburgh's...little known history of soldiers in far flung coasts, foreign lands fighting against evil on every front

OUR LION R.I.P. SIR Winston Spencer Churchill

Man, Sir Winston was... cool. He was cool under fire. Imagine having leaders of this caliber again... now, when we need them the most. For the good or ill of any country, indeed of any people throughout history, it starts at the top. The world misses dearly this kind of cool-headed, solid and inspirational leadership right now, and we are being brought low for the lack of it.

@ghtsw11

2 жыл бұрын

The lack of statesmen around the world is horrifying.

@shaughnfourie304

Жыл бұрын

WE HAVE PRESIDENT PUTIN A GOOD MAN DESPITE ALL THE LIES OF THE WESTERN MEDIA WHO BETRAY EVERYTHING CHURCHILL STANDS FOR

What a man what a leader what a legend. I’m from a large military family and very proud of being English. Where has the bulldog spirit gone . We have let the heroes of yesterday down .

@redskyatnight123

3 жыл бұрын

Aint that the truth im a veteran but I'm not a proud English man anymore I'm not sure what to be proud of 😒 but I'm proud of my service and our war generation,

@matthewpace5834

Жыл бұрын

@Stepen Smith, hard times breed hard men. Soft times breed soft men. We have had things too easy, and have allowed politicians to serve their own interests, not the peoples.

@Hindsons

8 ай бұрын

​​@@matthewpace5834We have things easy because these men fought for it and it's what they would have wanted, they fought this war so we would never have to fight again. We aren't soft, its how things should be. Sadly its our own politicians letting our people down

This WAS their finest hour.

To all the nay sayers who continue to belittle him, you only have the freedom to spout your filth because of this GIANT.

@joshschaeffer3300

3 жыл бұрын

There fools. They think they know something about the man when all they know are actions out of context, not what would have happened or what intelligence he was given or obstacles he faced as a leader. Some say he is a bad man but I'll leave it to machiavelli " if a man is determined to only do good then he will be destroyed amongst so many who are evil." People cant begin to understand what it would have taken to keep Britain in the war and for Churchill to set aside his personal hatred for communism and forge a partnership with Stalin, had we listen to Winston he said all along that Hitler was trouble and needed to be put in check before it takes a world war to do so.

"Hitler knows that he will have to break us on this island or lose the war" was brilliant phrasing. At the time Hitler was running roughshod over everyone and everything in Europe and looked unstoppable. To make mention of Hitler "losing the war," even as unlikely as it seemed at the time, was an excellent psychological ploy considering how bleak and hopeless the situation looked for the UK at that moment.

@idkusernameeggatron4652

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes. It's hard to remember nazis were nazis on a map but the France campaign and the invasion of the Soviets were beautifully done. Must be crazy to stand up to that.

Where are those type of men now when we need them most Churchill was most definitely a great man then, now, and forever.

@josephrichter2104

3 жыл бұрын

He was a drunken warmonger, a mass murderer who helped destroy Europe and even, ironically, his beloved British empire, all for what? For Poland? The same POland that was given up to the Soviets who had murdered more people before the war than Germany is said to have killed in 12 years of National Socialism? Then the betrayal of the rest of that half of Europe to the Soviets.

@Salazar777

3 жыл бұрын

I´m asking the same question today!!!! please HELP US!! THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE AGAINST MADURO´S COMMUNIST TYRANNY!!!!

@universodosgamesevlogs4509

2 жыл бұрын

@@Salazar777 good luck I guess

@universodosgamesevlogs4509

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephrichter2104 he probably killed a lot of people, but certainly without him millions more would have died

Winston, was born to see, England, come through to bring us to victory. And the greatest speach, ever said.

@radiosnail

2 жыл бұрын

BRitain come through. Never just about us English. To say nothing of the Dominions, Empire and the New World.

@StevenHannah-gc2jy

2 жыл бұрын

@@radiosnail yes well said mate Scottish English Welsh Irish Indian troops all fought for the empire

I am german, and I can only thank Churchill for being so stubborn. And I live in what was once the kingdom of Hanover, so there are some ancient ties to England. So as long as there ist no football involved... Stay healthy, bleibt gesund

@susandennett579

4 жыл бұрын

I am a everton fan, so no football is o.k, stay safe , have a nice day tommorow.

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

Florian Busse welcome Florian

@paganphil100

3 жыл бұрын

@@susandennett579 : I agree.....even though I'm a Liverpool fan :-)

@iainmair485

3 жыл бұрын

Germans were also victims of Hitler ‘s tyranny.

@iainmair485

3 жыл бұрын

@@paganphil100 who is he? ........He’s Virgil Van Dyke.

incredible that he made this speech when Britain was on its heels, he should have been terrified, but he boldly doubled-down.

He was profound and timely! It WAS! Their finest hour! So proud that we supported them.

The Last Sentence of the Speech was the Best Sentence.

Gets me every time I hear it. Simply magnificent.

It leaves everything for future generations to aspire to - because for a thousand years in the past, and a thousand years in the future, this, indeed, was the British's finest hour...

@jeffwalther3935

6 жыл бұрын

Neil Griffiths brotain will be lucky to last past brexit. Britain was a conception of people, now indistinct from the third rate countries it colonized and traded with. Lesson is avoid trade and imperialism, anything with outsiders if you want to last one thousand years.

@neilgriffiths6427

6 жыл бұрын

Oh contraire, Brexit is the biggest opportunity Britain has had since before the first world war, there are about 5 million out of a population of 65 million who are immigrants or recent descendants of immigrants, so as long as control is taken back as Brexit's most important issue demanded, I don't see a problem going forward - so long as we don't capitulate entirely to the SJW's. of course.

@jeffwalther3935

6 жыл бұрын

Neil Griffiths perhaps, but at no time in her history nor history itself have so-called migrants and refugees be nothong of the kind. These stateless things do not assimilate to britain, learn the language, assime the culture, etc. Rather they completely uncharacteristically of their predecessors, behave and carry on as they dod in yhe places they fled headlong from, bringing the same stupid pigheaded, idiotic problems and concerns that ruined the lives and countries that they came from. And no one english wants england anything like non-england, which is the reason for borders.

@neilgriffiths6427

6 жыл бұрын

It's a huge challenge, agree, but there are plenty equal to it.

@jeffwalther3935

6 жыл бұрын

Neil Griffiths challenge is great agreed, but the anticipated end is completely disputed by every measure and will be fisasterous for britain, the eu and the world. Refugees and economic migrants in general are the zombies and pod people of our literatures worst alluded to nightmare.

Hitler bewitched the German people with his twisted rhetoric! Churchill inspired England and its commonwealth with his words. A battle of evil against good and with God's help good triumphed! Words are a powerful tool in the mouth of good men as well as perverse ones. Thank you, Winston; truly one of the greatest men to have ever lived!

Looking at that map of the empire, that tiny island, that blessed plot, was powerful beyond belief.

To fight on,if necessary for years,if necessary alone 😥😥what a man and what a speaker ...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 also our friends and family in the commonwealth and america 👍

Little-known fact: in 1953, Churchill won a Nobel Prize...in Literature!

@histman3133

3 жыл бұрын

He had finally completed his epic series History of the English-Speaking Peoples which won him the Nobel Prize in literature. I'm trying to find them. It's on my bucket list to buy them. You can buy it on Amazon if you're interested.

@finnmccool684

3 жыл бұрын

@@histman3133 I've got an antique set of them. I started reading them, and it was immediately clear to me that he was a genius.

@peggykervella8744

3 жыл бұрын

WELL DESERVED.

@colinbaldwin3833

3 жыл бұрын

I think it was for “The Second World War”. A 6 volume book. It’s fascinating and covers the period from the end of the First World War to 1945.

@histman3133

3 жыл бұрын

@@finnmccool684 Oh you suck! Hahaha just kidding. I know they're quite expensive (Like $200 altogether) but even if they had an abridged version of them I would be quite happy with it. I have an abridged copy of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Yes I have the entire collection on audio but it isn't the same.

One of the greatest speech’s in the English speaking world, “this was their finest hour”.

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

Brace67 bollocks

@lawrieflowers8314

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardgray6313 Well - Dick - that was a very thoughtful reply. Are you always this cerebral? Do you always mull over your reply, before delivering it in so intelligently. Perhaps you could elaborate - lend us some of your undoubted wisdom - give us your idea of great English-speaking speeches. And also try to put into words - if that's not asking too much - what you don't like about this speech...

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

Brace67 stuff your old raj up your bottom

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

lawrie flowers I would not waste my time too much damage was done at the time

@richardgray6313

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if you had noticed dunderhead but English speaking world by now includes the whole world stop giving yourself airs stupid

This man was so brave and gave such powerful speeches that brought me to tears too bad theirs not many more like him around no more we sure could use them RIP Winston

just.. wow. That truly was their finest hour, and the world is a better place for it. We owe them so much. Lest we forget.

Churchill himself was a deeply flawed man, but he was also a man of great bravery and conviction. Makes me proud of my British ancestry. He inspired England and its empire to stand, essentially, alone against an enemy of overwhelming might, an enemy that may have shaped our modern world into something terrible had they won.

American here. Thanks for posting this. Always had a huge interest in WW2 history. Was in the UK in 2017 and toured the Imperial War Museum during the Armistice anniversary. Picked up a print of Sir Churchill, which still hangs in my den. Much respect to our brothers and sisters across the pond.

@DS9TREK

6 ай бұрын

It's Sir Winston. It's always the first name.

This was a statesman and the very definition of charismatic. And history picked him at the right time and at the right place.

Certainly know how to deliver a speach, talk about having the right man in the right place at the right time, what a legend! Thank you Sir Winston!

I do admire and respect the British people, the way they endure and overcome in such difficult times.

@michaelram3411

Жыл бұрын

that fatso,called churchill,was a bloodthirsty r@cist,zi@nist rabid d@g that killed tens of millions of innocent people and the main responsible for ww2

Great words and inspirational example of incredible leadership, for the ages.

So good, so right, so true to the human spirit Churchill's beliefs march on.

@kynanverwimp847

3 жыл бұрын

Only if your IQ is below 100

He was truly one of a kind.

This and the fight on the beaches speech are still two of the greatest of all times. S. Klein Naples Fl

As an American, I can say this is the most epic quote I've ever heard. It was indeed 'their finest hour'

we shall not flag nor fail, we shall go on to the end

People say all this bad stuff about Churchill but if it weren't for him we would more than likely be speaking German under Nazi rule so before you start talking our of your rear think about that for a moment and realise he saved us and is one of the biggest heroes in the world

I'm so proud to be British. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Sir Winston Churchill, led his people to victory, leading to the Battle of Britain; and had he said; this was our finest hour!!!

If only we had a leader and man of such dignity now when the world’s in turmoil in 2024……. We miss the likes of you and your generation Winston, back when we had a backbone and military to be proud of - what have our governments and us the people allowed to happen since this our finest hour- we are a shadow on the wall in comparison to that great generation- we owe them so much that can never be repaid- I’m 40 years old and welsh and love history - I’m only sorry our generation is so full of people who will not answer the call, they use their right to free speech to spout out that they wouldn’t defend our way of life and country but they don’t even know that right was fought for, blood spit and sacrifice on a selfless scale they can’t even imagine……. To all those who came before and gave their all I say this - we salute you all and beg forgiveness for dishonouring your ultimate sacrifices 🙏👏🏻👏🏻🍻🥃

The Darkest Hour is a masterpiece 💙 Gary Oldman is a genius ❤️

Thanks. I needed this tonight. You earned a subscriber. This always was and still is my favorite speech from Sir Winston Churchill, so far at least.

I’m Anglo-American (God Bless America and God Save The King) and I am so proud of this man. How lucky were we to have him as a leader? He was our finest hour. Honor of the highest order. Whenever I need to be inspired, I simply look up ‘Winston Churchill quotes’. I can tell Her Majesty The Queen benefited greatly from having him as her first Prime Minister. She learned the best from him. She has his cheekiness and his sense of honor too. Churchill and the fine British people who fought so hard have indeed gone down as our finest hour. The American in me is quite proud he is part American. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

As an American, I have to say, we needed the British to win ww2. Churchill was a great man. Sorry we didn’t enter in 1939...

@Kerrywelly68

3 жыл бұрын

Satoru taiyo we would never have won the war without you 🇬🇧😁🇺🇸god bless America 🇺🇸

@Alex-yy5wo

3 жыл бұрын

Kerry Day thanks! 😊

@Alex-yy5wo

3 жыл бұрын

🇺🇸 x 🇬🇧

@deprogramm

3 жыл бұрын

there was no reason to join at the time. The american public didn't want a repeat of ww1, basically a war for nothing.

@deprogramm

3 жыл бұрын

generic generic it’s ok, you outdid us with the bengal famine at the same time. But go ahead, keep being a moron. And the situations for the two were vastly different, moron.

That WAS their FINEST HOUR.............and now THIS IS OUR WORST !!! Oh how we need another Churchill right now !!!

@mw3goymw3goy

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yes Mrs may what a load of shit

@stormliberator8335

5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree. If only we could bring him back...

@misteryA555

5 жыл бұрын

No, we need someone even BETTER than Churchill

@nickforest6846

4 жыл бұрын

Against whom you are going to fight? There are no Nazis, no Communists

@davidhoward8270

4 жыл бұрын

Nick Forest but there is Corbyn and momentum.

Indeed, their finest hour!

It never ceases to amaze me how some men are born so divinely and perfectly for their time and their moment.

@benbim540

9 ай бұрын

It's true he was a pretty poor student at school and one of his teachers said to him u will never amount to anything and he replied u are wrong one day when the country is in a series fix it will fall on me to lead us out of trouble. In 1940 when they called on him to be leader he said I've always known this day would cum I feel like I'm walking with destiny.

at various times small groups of men or sometimes one man curves the arc of history . Winston Churchill was one of these men. What a debt the free world owes him and the British Empire. I am humbled by his speeches . Modern leaders could learn a great deal by understanding his approach

1:25 the young and/or illinformed may find these words insulting. Nay. These are words of respect and solidarity of the true meanings of freedom. Sir Winston Churchill, the greatest individual in European history. He, alone, made a stand, when others plead "neutrality" or worse. Never forget that fact.

This speech reminds me of Henry V's speech to his men the night before the battle of Agincourt. It is that powerful, that inspiring.

@DS9TREK

6 ай бұрын

Except that speech was made up by Shakespeare

Great! Inspiring example I feek needed more than ever!

Lots of shortcomings and failures, but dogged, inspirational and visionary. He foretold of this coming. Man of the hour. Remember his funeral being televised in black and white.

"never give up!!!"

This is the speech of an oral genius. What would we all give to have had this giant of a man stear us through Brexit, immigration and the rise of Muslim bile in our country?

@Kianmur

4 ай бұрын

People forget that Churchill won a Nobel prize for literature. The man was a genius with words

@TheTonytiger89

3 ай бұрын

As if you would want that. I suspect he’d just sell off what little family silver we have left to the Americans on the cheap - just like he did last time.

Hearing that last part, you know those chills you get when hearing something brave? Yea, got hypothermia. This guy can really speak.

I served with the British forces. They're some badasses. Iraq 2007 I felt an absolute brotherhood with our countries.

A friend, born in 1944,, was set out of the cities as many children were, en masse, to avoid the bombing of London. Because she survived she was the best friend I ever had. She died last year aged 79. I will never forget her.

Thanks for posting. The Prime Minister is always motivating. Having said that, the transcription can do with much work ...

Inspirational

As an American and not always a fan of England, even I was emotionally moved by this speech and the apparent strong will of the British people. Protecting an island country isn’t easy - especially when a world war rages at the island’s back door! When France fell in 1940, Britain stood singlehandedly alone to fight Hitler for 2 years! That is true national grit, determination and strong patriotic pride in its finest hour! - “Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. We will never give up! We will never, never surrender!”

@danelfor_realsie

20 күн бұрын

why are you not always a fan of England?

@all4one06

19 күн бұрын

I’ve had my own personal moments with Brits and not all of them were good. The bad moments were with those Brits who call Americans stuffy and putting themselves as the country who had a massive empire, developing the world and having once had the most powerful navy in the world. I don’t believe in empires. The Brits were harsh taskmasters. And images of their brutal takeover of South Africa still reverberate in my mind after seeing the movie of Britain finally conquering Chaka Zulu - determined to conquer and break him….

He is my hero and life idol Who knows what shape the wprld would be in today were in not for Churchill. The man of the century The lesson: Whatever you focus, that is what you will get Dit dit dit daw.✌️

The greatest leader we have ever had or will ever have that is a fact Thanks Winston for your dedication commitment and words of wisdom and encouragement to our nation which has proved to have been our toughest time as a globe 🌍 Truly are a NATIONAL TREASURE regardless of the thoughts of the lefties 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor-it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. ~ John F. Kennedy.

80 years later, and many consider that battle over the channel to be our finest hour.

Dude knew how to turn a phrase! I have a ton of problems with Churchill, but I get chills every time I listen to this.

Let this great man sort brexit , his voice alone and passion will draw this country together , we will never surrender to bulling

@nealbeard1

4 жыл бұрын

Bullying by whom. I guess you mean the EU

Winston Churchill the greatest politician of the 20th century!

This speech of Churchill should go down in history as one of the 10 greatest speeches of all time, All Europe lay at the feet of the Fuhrer and only Britain stood in his path, he just had to knock them out and he would and perhaps have ended the war and might not even have thought of invading Russia, but Churchill's stubbornness made Hitler take the gamble of invading the Soviet Union and the tide turned against Germany. How one man stood against the mightiest empire ever known and still came out victorious will be a point thst will be debated for the next thousand years

Thank you for this sobering reminder of the strength of leadership we had Conservatives November 2022, hang your heads in shame. Disgraceful..

Winston Churchill Forever 💙❤️💙

Extremely well-presented. The accompanying photo montage did justice to these immortal words. Others who have streamed this historic gem failed to accord it the attention and respect the speech deserved. Well done, I say!

3:21 when he said "not wajabbal schtr dowe besee" I felt that.