“…and you may sleep quietly in your beds.”

—  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Speech at The Royal Academy Banquet, 1903, regarding the threat of invasion.
p. 83. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n113/mode/1up
The phrase 'Sleep quiet in your beds' appears in Records, p. 85 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n116/mode/1up and Memories, p. 202. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/202/mode/1up
The phrase 'So sleep easy in your beds' was used for the title for the sixth episode of the BBC documentary The Great War.
Records (1919) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n0/mode/1up

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