"I believe that the purpose for which I……" — Siegfried Sassoon
"I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation."
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Siegfried Sassoon
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23 Quotes by Siegfried Sassoon
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The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.
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For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost…
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The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
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I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
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His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid…
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I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the…
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I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War…
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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
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I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong…
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Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
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