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你們會問，我們的目標是什么？我可以用一個詞作答，那就是：勝利。不惜一切代價，甘冒一切危險去奪取勝利。不論前面的道路多么漫長，多么崎嶇，一定要奪取勝利！因為不獲勝利就得滅亡。
In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.
I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and unpleasant catalogue of human crime.
That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs—victory in spite of all terrors—victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.
I take up my task in light heart and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.”
溫斯頓·丘吉爾，政治家、畫家、演說家、作家以及記者，1953年諾貝爾文學獎得主（獲獎作品《第二次世界大戰回憶錄》），曾于1940－1945年及1951－1955年期間兩度任英國首相，被認為是20世紀最重要的政治領袖之一，帶領英國獲得第二次世界大戰的勝利。據傳為歷史上掌握英語單詞詞匯量最多的人之一(十二萬多)。被美國雜志《展示》列為近百年來世界最有說服力的八大演說家之一。2002年，BBC舉行了一個名為“最偉大的100名英國人”的調查，結果丘吉爾獲選為有史以來最偉大的英國人。
