we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
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If we are mark’d to die, we are enow.
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,This other Eden, demi-paradise,This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war,This happy breed of men, this little world,This precious stone set in the silver sea,Which serves it in the office of a wall,Or as a moat […]
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On this day 330 years ago in 1689, Royal ascent was given to the English Bill of rights which laid out the rights of parliament, the limitations on the Monarch as well as certain civil rights and liberties of subjects, such the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. The Bill was presented to William of […]
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