“If the spirit of freedom which burns in the British breast had not been a pure, dazzling, inextinguishable flame, we might not yet have been near the end of this war.”

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “We have our mistakes, our weaknesses and failings, but in the fight which this island race has made, had it not been the toughest of the tough; if the spirit of freedom which burns in the British breast had not been a pure, dazzling, inextinguishable flame, we might not yet have been near the end of this war.” · Bristol University, 21 April 1945