Andrea Salinas Quotes

Man,it seemed,had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I`d live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Soldiers are citizens of death`s grey land, drawing no dividend from time`s tomorrows.

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.