Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 402 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) |
| QUOTATION: | Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | He was referring to the heroism of the biblical Maccabees found in I Maccabees (Apocrypha) 3:58–60. |
| SUBJECTS: | Defense |