BE YE MEN OF VALOUR speech by Winston Churchill (First speech as Prime Minister)
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- Be Ye Men of Valour is the first speech by Churchill as Prime Minister. The speech was made in a BBC broadcast on 19 May 1940, when the strategic situation in Europe was quickly deteriorating, as the Wehrmacht surprised the French army by advancing through the Ardennes, and consequently breaking through the defenses at Sedan and crossing the Meuse.
The speech concludes with a famous quotation from the Apocrypha, which supplies the phrase by which the speech became known:
Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.
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His decision to send private sailing vessels to Dunkirk allowed my grandfather to survive what was basically a life or death situation. My Polish grandfather was able to survive and meet my gran, hence me.
I do not believe that Churchill or anyone in the government ordered or even encouraged the civilian flotilla that assisted in the recue at Dunkirk. It was a spontaneous act of the British people. He volume on the war makes this pretty clear. Regardless he was clearly the man of the century, I would say of the millennium.
@@thomasmiller4632Your explanation is hard to follow, elaborate. “He volume on the war makes this pretty clear”?
The words for those who want read along
“I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister in a solemn hour for the life of our country, of our empire, of our allies, and, above all, of the cause of Freedom. A tremendous battle is raging in France and Flanders. The Germans, by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armoured tanks, have broken through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line, and strong columns of their armoured vehicles are ravaging the open country, which for the first day or two was without defenders. They have penetrated deeply and spread alarm and confusion in their track. Behind them there are now appearing infantry in lorries, and behind them, again, the large masses are moving forward. The re-groupment of the French armies to make head against, and also to strike at, this intruding wedge has been proceeding for several days, largely assisted by the magnificent efforts of the Royal Air Force.
We must not allow ourselves to be intimidated by the presence of these armoured vehicles in unexpected places behind our lines. If they are behind our Front, the French are also at many points fighting actively behind theirs. Both sides are therefore in an extremely dangerous position. And if the French Army, and our own Army, are well handled, as I believe they will be; if the French retain that genius for recovery and counter-attack for which they have so long been famous; and if the British Army shows the dogged endurance and solid fighting power of which there have been so many examples in the past - then a sudden transformation of the scene might spring into being.
It would be foolish, however, to disguise the gravity of the hour. It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage or to suppose that well-trained, well-equipped armies numbering three or four millions of men can be overcome in the space of a few weeks, or even months, by a scoop, or raid of mechanized vehicles, however formidable. We may look with confidence to the stabilization of the Front in France, and to the general engagement of the masses, which will enable the qualities of the French and British soldiers to be matched squarely against those of their adversaries. For myself, I have invincible confidence in the French Army and its leaders. Only a very small part of that splendid Army has yet been heavily engaged; and only a very small part of France has yet been invaded. There is a good evidence to show that practically the whole of the specialized and mechanized forces of the enemy have been already thrown into the battle; and we know that very heavy losses have been inflicted upon them. No officer or man, no brigade or division, which grapples at close quarters with the enemy, wherever encountered, can fail to make a worthy contribution to the general result. the Armies must cast away the idea of resisting behind concrete lines or natural obstacles, and must realize that mastery can only be regained by furious and unrelenting assault. And this spirit must not only animate the High Command, but must inspire every fighting man.
In the air - often at serious odds, often at odds hitherto thought overwhelming - we have been clawing down three or four to one of our enemies; and the relative balance of the British and German Air Forces is now considerably more favourable to us than at the beginning of the battle. In cutting down the German bombers, we are fighting our own battle as well as that of France. May confidence in our ability to fight it out to the finish with the German Air Force has been strengthened by the fierce encounters which have taken place and are taking place. At the same time, our heavy bombers are striking nightly at the tap-root of German mechanized power, and have already inflicted serious damage upon the oil refineries on which the Nazi effort to dominate the world directly depends.
We must expect that as soon as stability is reached on the Western Front, the bulk of that hideous apparatus of aggression which gashed Holland into ruin and slavery in a few days will be turned upon us. I am sure I speak for all when I say we are ready to face it; to endure it; and to retaliate against it - to any extent that the unwritten laws of war permit. There will be many men and many women in the Island who when the ordeal comes upon them, as come it will, will feel comfort, and even a pride, that they are sharing the perils of our lads at the Front - soldiers, sailors and airmen, God bless them - and are drawing away from them a part at least of the onslaught they have to bear. Is not this the appointed time for all to make the utmost exertions in their power? If the battle is to be won, we must provide our men with ever-increasing quantities of the weapons and ammunition they need. We must have, and have quickly, more aeroplanes, more tanks, more shells, more guns. there is imperious need for these vital munitions. They increase our strength against the powerfully armed enemy. They replace the wastage of the obstinate struggle; and the knowledge that wastage will speedily be replaced enables us to draw more readily upon our reserves and throw them in now that everything counts so much.
Our task is not only to win the battle - but to win the war. After this battle in France abates its force, there will come the battle for our Island - for all that Britain is, and all the Britain means. That will be the struggle. In that supreme emergency we shall not hesitate to take every step, even the most drastic, to call forth from our people the last ounce and the last inch of effort of which they are capable. The interests of property, the hours of labor, are nothing compared with the struggle of life and honor, for right and freedom, to which we have vowed ourselves.
I have received from the Chiefs of the French Republic, and in particular form its indomitable Prime Minister, M. Reynaud, the most sacred pledges that whatever happens they will fight to the end, be it bitter or be it glorious. Nay, if we fight to the end, it can only be glorious.
Having received His Majesty’s commission, I have formed an Administration of men and women of every Party and of almost every point of view. We have differed and quarreled in the past; but now one bond unites us all - to wage war until victory is won, and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame, whatever the cost and the agony may be. If this is one of the most awe-striking periods in the long history of France and Britain, it is also beyond doubt the most sublime. Side by side, unaided except by their kith and kin in the great Dominions and by the wide empires which rest beneath their shield - side by side, the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue not only Europe but mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them - behind us- behind the Armies and Fleets of Britain and France - gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians - upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.
Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.”
That last paragraph is from 1 Maccabees 3 58-60 King James Apocrypha. Also the title. Yeah, I know something!
this is the weirdest yet the most satisfying kumon listening session i guess
Peaceout Entertainment Thank you. You did wonderful job.
Thank you very much, it helped me a lot, not easy for a not-motherlanguage to understand
I think they should have children in school read and understand the meaning of every word in a speech like this.Very powerful words and inspiring!
The humility of valor against the banality of evil.
Darkest Hour brought me here
Me tooo❤
Conquer we must and conquer we shall!!
Greatest PM we've ever had
Greatest wartime PM yes but not the greatest peacetime PM?
Thanks for posting this.
WOW!
Dear Friends, Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, ISRAEL, Mr. Lowell Joseph Gallin
"He mobilized the English Language, and sent it into battle," Never were truer words spoken, and never was there a brighter light, in darker days. "The Sunlit Uplands" seemed evermore distant, and the darkness more impenetrable. But better days would come, and we live them to this very hour, thanks to the people who took up the battle crystalized so brilliantly in these words. We will never forget the words or the man, but let us always remember at the same time the struggle which brave people must always face if the sum of Humanity is to be uplifted, and kept from those who would see the world plunged again into darkness.
Few people met both Churchill and Hitler. Those who did say Hitler made you believe he could do anything. Churchill, however, nade you believe you could do anything. Therein lies a great difference quoted by those who met both.
My mom shall never know it’s 3am and I want watching this
2019 anyone?
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour brought me here
2020 anyone?
WHERE. IS. THIS. *NOW* ?
Pretty sure most of the German forces are dead.
@@JWarrior_81
And their descendants have engineered a stealthy revenge.
@@stephenarling1667 good one
@@stephenarling1667 The Fourth Reich is forming secretly, gaining strength. It is even a secret to the current German Chancellor. It will soon topple the current government of Germany. Their rise to power will plummet the planet into a global thermal nuclear war.
On UA-cam. You're watching it bro
sounds like Ukraine
In Father and King Jesus' Name, Amen ✝️✨
The copyright claim by UMG seems spoof to me.
Praise for the indomitable French is droll in hindsight.
The French soldier was as brave as to be expected from any. Their commanders like Petain and Weygand and Gamelan were WWI left overs and still had that trench mentality.
@@Winston.S.Churchill
Paraphrasing, you say the French were only beaten because the Germans didn't fight fair?
french war flag should've been a white cross on a white background :)
@@chasey2327Bellend.
Trump’s speeches are every but as majestic and moving . You have never heard him. His speech at the UN was incredible.
Ridiculous
his speeches are rambling word salad nonsense full of childish boasting and endless lying
A Pygmy and traitor
He was laughed at by UN
U CANNOT BE SERIOUS.
That’s the time the other nations laughed at him
@@chasey2327 shes right. People laughed at Churchill and he did better than most ever did, just like trump
I listen to many of Trump’s speeches live and they are usually unstructured factually misleading xenophobic rants! No-one could ever compare the two rhetoricians!
The Hitler/Chamberlian agreement made after a 4 year Dialogue, was honoured by Hitler when he allowed the British army to leave dunkirk when the luftwaffe could have easily annihalated them, shame we did not keep our word too. Churchill was named in the Mitrokhin archives as a long term Soviet/jewish agent and BTW this is not churchills voice but Norman Shelleys who often stood in when churchill was too drunk.
Absolute nonsense almost every word with racist overtones
wot u smoking john?
hi nooberdoober you may be right but it does not negate the truth of what i said thankyou
Oh dear Oh dear.
He sounded like a struggling baby...
His is the voice of good imperial heritage, Britain's finest. An opinion unafforded to those whom share your sentiments but one that is common and correct non the less
@@wiganlatics6553 hear hear.
@@wiganlatics6553 The fuck does "Imperial heritage" even mean? I certainly hope you're not saying he was racially pure, because you need to go watch the other side's speeches if you are.