“Every morn brought forth a noble chance, and every chance brought forth a noble knight.”

— Winston S. Churchill , book The Second World War

Speech in the House of Commons, June 4, 1940; passage praising the airmen of the Royal Air Force and their efforts during the evacuation of Dunkirk. This is a close paraphrase of Tennyson:
When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Alfred Tennyson, "Morte d'Arthur" http://home.att.net/~TennysonPoetry/mort.htm, stanza 23 (1842), and the expanded "The Passing of Arthur", stanza 36 in Idylls of the King (1856–1885)
The Second World War (1939–1945)

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