If we can stand up to them, all Europe may be free and the life of the World may move forward into broad, sunlite uplands. But if we fail, then the whole World, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protraced, by the lights of perverted science.

Winston Churcill, “This was their finest hour” speech to the House of Commons, June 18 th 1940