Winston Churchill’s ‘tribute to civil defence’ speech
Winston Churchill, UK prime minister: Tribute to Civil Defence: '...having been defeated on his (Hitler) invasion plans by the Royal Air Force...' and '...we ask no favours of the enemy, we seek from them no compunction, on the contrary, if tonight the people of London were asked to cast their votes as to whether convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of all cities, an overwhelming majority would cry. no, we will mete out to the Germans the measure - and more than the measure - that have meted out to us...' and 'you do your worst, we will do our best..' and '...that province of Germany, which used to be called Italy...'
