“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”

—  Winston S. Churchill, book The Second World War

Radio broadcast http://books.google.com/books?id=_YBkWL9XBfcC&amp;q=%22We+do+not+covet+anything+from+any+nation+except+their+respect%22&amp;pg=PA403#v=onepage to German occupied, Vichy, and Free France (21 October 1940) <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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