Seventy years ago today Sir Winston Churchill delivered an oratory masterpiece to the House of Commons that inspired Britain to fight on in spite of a German-occumpied France. In it he uttered these inspiring words

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. 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.”

Read the New York Times article about it here.

If only we had someone so inspiring to address our nation. Someone enlightened as to where we ought to go.