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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 2052
AUTHOR: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION: The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
ATTRIBUTION: Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech during the Battle of Britain, House of Commons, August 20, 1940.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6266 (1974).
SUBJECTS: World War II (1939–1945)