... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more
against the enemies of the future,
resist the mob and the demagogue as she
resisted Parliament and
King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.
As the Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion of the UK, Churchill must
resist attempts by his own political party and an initially sceptical
King George VI, to stand firm
against the dangers facing his country and not buckle to the Nazis.