我们将在沙滩上战斗
演讲文

以下这段演讲的段落被认为是其最为著名的部分，也被认为是丘吉尔在二战生涯中最精彩的演说：
现在重新讲回主题，更广泛地讨论入侵的问题，我發現在我们引以为豪的漫长历史中，还从来没有一个时期可以向我们的人民确保绝对的“防止入侵”，更不用说面对如此的危机。在拿破仑时代，也就是我刚才提到的，同樣的狂风也许将他的运输船吹过英吉利海峡的同时也驱散了我们的封锁舰队（拿破仑战争时期英国对革命法国进行海上封锁，既是贸易战的手段，也是对法国入侵（英语：）的防御）。
这样的机会总是存在的，而正是这种“可能”曾激起了无数大陆暴君的想象，并成功使他们上了当。历史上往往就是如此。而我们确信，新的（入侵）方法将会被采用，当我们看到敌人展现出那种独创恶意和侵略的创造性时，我们当然可以为各种新奇的阴谋和各种野蛮、奸诈的手法做足准备。
我认为，没有想法會离奇到我们不能以一种探索的眼光来思考和看待它，但与此同时，我也希望（我們）沉穩應對。只要海上和空中的力量能确切行使，我們就絕不能忘記它們帶給我們的堅定保障。
（议长）阁下，我本人完全相信，如果所有人都能善盡職責，如果没有任何疏忽，如果正在作出最好的安排，那么我们将再次证明我们有能力保卫我们的岛屿家园，渡过战争的风暴，并在暴政的威胁下存活下去，如果有必要的话，甚至可以长久以往地孤军奋战。
无论如何，这就是我们要努力做到的。这即是国王陛下政府——以及每个人的决心，也是议会和国家之意愿。大英帝国和法兰西共和国，在彼此的正义事业和需求中紧密地扣合在一起，也将誓死捍卫故土，并像战友一样竭尽所能互相帮助。
即使现在，欧罗巴的大片领土和许多历史悠久而著名的国家已经，或即将沦陷于盖世太保和纳粹可憎机器的控制之中，我们也绝不会轻言放弃或失败。我们要坚持到最后。我们将在法国作战，我们将在海上作战，我们将以越来越強大的信心和实力在空中作战，我们将保卫我们的岛屿，无论代价如何。我们将在海滩上战斗，我们将在登陆地上战斗，我们将在田野和街道上战斗，我们将在山丘上战斗；我们决不投降！
以及…尽管我一刻也不相信，这座岛屿或它的大部分地区被征服並陷入飢餓之中，那么我们在海外的帝国臣民，在皇家舰队的武装护卫下，将继续战斗——直到新世界在上帝認為合适的时刻，以其所有的力量，站出来拯救並解放这个旧世界！
英文原文：
Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon, of which I was speaking just now, the same wind which would have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away the blockading fleet. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many Continental tyrants. Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a searching, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye. We must never forget the solid assurances of sea power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised.
Sir, I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government – every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.