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All Quotes by author - Siegfried Sassoon
" I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. "
I Am
Acting
Am
" I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. "
Believe
End
I Am
" I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. "
Fighting
War
I Am
" 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. "
Purpose
Change
Done
" I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. "
I Can
I Believe
Evil
" In me the tiger sniffs the rose. "
Tiger
Me
Rose
" Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. "
Life
Germans
Been
" Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. "
Drawing
Time
Land
" Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. "
Soldiers
Clean
Think
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