Top 10 Greatest Speeches
As the political season heats up, TIME takes a tour of history's best rhetoric
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat, 1940
In his first speech as Britain's Prime Minister, Churchill tied the outcome of the fight against the Nazis to the survival of Britain itself. One of history's best battle cries.
Best Line: "You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy."
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