I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
More Quotes from Siegfried Sassoon:
Yet these, who cling to life with stubborn hands,Can grin through storms of death and find a gap
In the clawed, cruel tangles of his defence.
Siegfried Sassoon
O thrilling sweet, my joy, when life was free
And all the paths led on from hawthorn-time
Across the carolling meadows into June.
Siegfried Sassoon
My dreaming spirit will not heed
The roar of guns that would destroy
My life that on the gloom can read
Proud-surging melodies of joy.
Siegfried Sassoon
Does it matter - losing your legs For people will always be kind.
Siegfried Sassoon
What mercy can He give you?
Siegfried Sassoon
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.
Siegfried Sassoon
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