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1940 quotations

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We shall fight on the beaches

Common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill

blood, toil, tears, and sweat

political catchphrase

When You Wish Upon A Star

1940 original theme song written and composed by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington

Japanese political slogan, popularized during the Second Sino-Japanese war, describing Japanese imperial rule as divinely ordained to expand until it united the entire world

This was their finest hour

1940 speech by Winston Churchill

Never was so much owed by so many to so few

speech by the British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940

Be Ye Men of Valour

19 May 1940 speech by Winston Churchill