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title: 'Winston Churchill [2]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate" (text and crossed flags)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-text-1941/
description: A text-only sheet prints a quotation from Churchill's address to Congress under crossed British and American flags.
section: Collection
---

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[![Winston Churchill \[2\]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate", 1941 UK poster: A text-only sheet prints a quotation](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-text-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-text-1941.jpg)

# Winston Churchill [2]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate" (text and crossed flags)

A text-only sheet prints a quotation from Churchill's address to Congress under crossed British and American flags. The tell is the named speaker's words offered as the argument, with 'safety', 'good of all', 'majesty', 'justice' and 'peace' as the virtue words, and the paired flags standing for the alliance.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
I avow my hope and faith,
sure and inviolate, that in the
days to come the British and
American peoples will, for their
own safety and for the good of
all, walk together in majesty, in
justice and in peace.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

From an Address before a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941

[imprint:] BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICE  30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA  NEW YORK, N. Y.
```

[← Winston Churchill \[1\]: "I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-churchill-i-avow-my-hope-and-faith-bis-portrait-1941/) [Come Then Let Us to the Task, to the Battle & the Toil →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-come-then-let-us-to-the-task-churchill-1941/)

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