Their Finest Hour

     "Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
     ~ Winston Churchill, "Their Finest Hour" (speech, June 18th, 1940)

     (Note: yes, this was Churchill speaking to the British house of commons on overcoming Hitler. But a phrase in here that gets me every time I read it is "the lights of perverted science." Let us not give in to perverted science, here in the U.S.; let us turn back to our founding - back to God - and walk in His light, rather than that of perverted science.)