For My Country's Freedom

Even in war it is necessary to love another.

‘A general will say, "Order the 87th to advance." And if they are not enough or are hacked down, he will send in another regiment. He sees no faces, hears no pitiful cries which will never be answered, only flags, pins on maps.’

‘Men, Mr Blythe. Ordinary, everyday men — you'd never notice any of them in a street or working in the fields in England right? [...] But they are your answer. They are the strength of a ship. So let them not die to no good purpose.’

God and the navy we adore, when danger threatens but not before!

There will always be slaves, no matter what people promise and pretend.

He saw himself reflected in other people's faces, and the horror and the pity he saw there had never ceased to wound him.