Europe's finest hour

However matters may go in UK or with the UK Government or with another Government of the British Isles, we in this continent and in the European Union will never lose our sense of comradeship with the British people. Even if some of our 27 member states were to be called upon to endure what they are now suffering we shall emulate their courage, and if final victory rewards our toils they shall share the gains, aye. And freedom through the union of all European shall eventually be restored. We abate nothing of our just demands— no benefits from the Union for those who oppose the Union, but in the future, all who will reunite their causes to our own shall be restored.
What some had called the Battle of Britain is over ... the Battle for a stronger Europe is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of a free and peaceful Europe. Upon it depends our own European life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Union. The whole fury and might of our opponents must very soon be turned on us. "UK Leave" leaders know that they will have to break us in our Union or remain isolated an desolated. If we can stand up, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, may sink into recession, and maybe even into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister of European nations fighting each other. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the European Union last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

(adapted from Winston Churchill's speech of June 18th, 1940).