You do your worst—and we will do our best (Primary source)
Churchill’s defiant July 1941 oration rallied London’s battered civil defenders, pledging reciprocal retribution against Nazi terror while celebrating Britain’s unconquerable spirit amid the gathering storm of total war.
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