Siegfried Sassoon,
Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration
(1917)
“ 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 am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. ”
Siegfried Sassoon,
Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration
(1917)
“ 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. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. ”
Siegfried Sassoon,
Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration
(1917)
“ On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest against the deception which is being practised upon them; also I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and which they have not enough imagination to realise. ”
