Winston Churchill Quote

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power.”

– Winston Churchill, August 20, 1940

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Winston Churchill Quote Sources

• Quote: “The Few.” Speech by Winston Churchill on August 20, 1940. International Churchill Society, https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/the-few/
• Photograph: “Winston Churchill 1949.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winston_Churchill_1949.jpg