Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said his government would never surrender to Kurdish militants but he was cautiously hopeful that the talks could succeed.

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In 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made his famous "We shall fight on the beaches... we shall never surrender" speech to the House of Commons.

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The Japanese believed in the unwritten Samurai code of conduct, known as Bushido, which held that the true warrior was willing to die for the Emperor and would never surrender.

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The first lesson then is never to surrender or give any quarter to lies.

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And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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Karl Timmermann became the first American officer to cross the tottering Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine when "the inner door to Germany had swung wide, never to be shut again" and on to the final German surrender at 2 a.m. on Monday, May 7.

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