I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

William Norman Ewer

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Topic

Abuses of patriotism Dying for one's country World War I War

Author

William Norman Ewer

Source

Five Souls

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ewer, William Norman. "Five Souls." British Nation, 3 Oct. 1914, I. 5.

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To be born is to be wrecked on an island.

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Topic
The human condition

Author

J.M. Barrie
Source
The Coral Island
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

Another quote about War

There are no atheists in the fox holes.

William Thomas Cummings

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Topic
Facing death God and war War
Speaker
William Thomas Cummings
Language
English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Cummings, William Thomas. Quoted in I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, by Carlos P. Romulo. Doubleday, 1943, ch. 15.

Another quote from 1914

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

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Topic
Home

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Death of the Hired Man
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." North of Boston. David Nutt, 1914.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995.