Top 10: War Speeches That Inspired
Discover The War Speech More Inspirational Than Churchill's 'Never Surrender'
We mentioned it in the intro, but a speech this good deserves a second one.
It was early June of 1940 and the British Expeditionary Force had just completed an amazing evacuation at Dunkirk, saving hundreds of thousands of soldiers who had been marked for death. But Winston Churchill knew this was no reason for celebration but a startling wake-up call, and he rallied the British with an extraordinary address to the House of Commons and all of England, telling them: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, 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 never surrender!"